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authorMatthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>2022-05-03 13:36:16 +0200
committerMatthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>2022-05-03 13:38:50 +0200
commitbdcb818804ba66bd52bb089b4f8ad33b3f18ca51 (patch)
treed3918164dd7dd530c3486691605155ff6094d79e
parentd33eace057c830a5c1b43914d1e4287f7db605bb (diff)
Replace "rm" call with "git rm"submitting-changes-gitrm
`git rm` should always be preferred over "normal" `rm`. Signed-off-by: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
-rw-r--r--doc/contributing/submitting-changes.chapter.md2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing/submitting-changes.chapter.md b/doc/contributing/submitting-changes.chapter.md
index 109d051c016f..d428f00eea56 100644
--- a/doc/contributing/submitting-changes.chapter.md
+++ b/doc/contributing/submitting-changes.chapter.md
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ We use jbidwatcher as an example for a discontinued project here.
1. Have Nixpkgs checked out locally and up to date.
1. Create a new branch for your change, e.g. `git checkout -b jbidwatcher`
-1. Remove the actual package including its directory, e.g. `rm -rf pkgs/applications/misc/jbidwatcher`
+1. Remove the actual package including its directory, e.g. `git rm -rf pkgs/applications/misc/jbidwatcher`
1. Remove the package from the list of all packages (`pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix`).
1. Add an alias for the package name in `pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix` (There is also `pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/aliases.nix`. Package sets typically do not have aliases, so we can't add them there.)