On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 06:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Peter <peter...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I am a lightweigt git user so by all means not a reference, but I was
> > wondering why exactly does "git rm" also delete the file (remove it
> > from the working tree). I see it as an unintended behaviour as git is
> > written in a way that it preserves the most data.
> 
> The data is still preserved.  You can restore it with "git checkout HEAD
> <file>".

Assuming the file is present in HEAD, of course. But if it is not, then
git should (and does) complain and ask for "-f".

-Peff
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