Why should we use git rm to remove a file instead of rm?

Question

On SVN, removing something from the filesystem directly (rather than using svn) created a load of headaches. So far, using git, I haven't found this to be an issue, but I notice that git has it's own rm implementation.

Is there a difference? Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

If you use rm then you need to follow

git add <fileRemoved>

But if you use git rm this command will remove a file and also you could use:

git rm --cached

This command will delete the file from the index.