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Bug 439700

Summary:	deleting a file (in package explorer) adds the file to the index
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Missing name <farmboy0>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	robin.rosenberg, robin
Version:	3.4.1
Target Milestone:	3.5
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Missing name

2014-07-16 07:45:35 EDT

The Delete was done in the Package Explorer to a file already under (e)git version control.
After the Delete the change was shown as a staged change not an unstaged change as is expected.

Comment 1 Robin Rosenberg

2014-07-16 08:32:16 EDT

This is intentional. When you delete a file you are most likely also going to commit the delete. Less work for the developer. We also do this for renames.

We don't do it for creating new files or changing files because it's more common, in that case, that you actually are not going to commit those changes and undoing staging is much harder, especially if you already have staged changes.

Comment 2 Robin Stocker

2014-07-16 21:56:55 EDT

This request has come up before, please see bug 341322 which is about making this a preference. (Changed to duplicate so that we see it in the other bug.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 341322 ***