How do I remove-and-commit + fs.unlink(... and have git know that everything is up to date / commited?

If I create new files in my repo and use .addAll(file_paths), commit and then run git-cola in the directory I get 0 reports on files being in the directory which haven't been added to the repo.

The same thing happens when I use .removeAll(file_paths) but that only removes it from the index, not the actual files like git rm file.txt does, so I experimented with doing fs.unlink(... before and after doing removeAll but it always results in git-cola reporting modified files.

That is:

git init
touch test.txt
git add test.txt
git commit -m "test"
git rm test.txt
git commit -m "rm test"
git-cola

Will show 0 reports on changes needing to be committed but my nodejs equivilant does show changes needing to be commited, why is that and what can I do about it?

• nodegit@0.7

My nodegit removeAll code:

...
function removeAndCommitFiles(root, file_paths, message) {
  var dotgit = path.join(root, ".git");

  var repository;
  var index;
  var oid;

  nodegit.Repository.open(dotgit)
  .then(function(repo) {
    repository = repo;
    return fs.ensureDir(repository.workdir());
  })
  .then(function() {
    return repository.openIndex();
  })
  .then(function(indexResult) {
    index = indexResult;
    return index.read(1);
  })
  .then(function() {
    return index.removeAll(file_paths);
  })
  .then(function() {
    return index.write();
  })
  .then(function() {
    return index.writeTree();
  })
  .then(function(oidResult) {
    oid = oidResult;
    return nodegit.Reference.nameToId(repository, "HEAD");
  })
  .then(function(head) {
    return repository.getCommit(head);
  })
  .then(function(parent) {
    return repository.createCommit("HEAD", author, committer, message, oid, [parent]);
  })
  .done(function(commitId) {
    // ...
  });
}
...

Start by tracing the removeAll, index.write, index.writeTree, and createCommit calls in the provided NodeGit example, then compare their repository state with the git rm and git-cola command-line sequence. Reproduce the mismatch and determine what repository state git-cola observes; done means the equivalent removal and commit report no pending changes.