Running git rm fails with 'unknown switch'

[nmagerko]

I am trying to check out an orphan branch in a repository that has previous commits in it. For example, commits A, B, and C are in master, but I want to make a branch separate that has no commits, and no staged changes.

In order to do that, given that repo is a Repo instance initialized properly, I am running:

repo.git.checkout(orphan="separate")
repo.git.rm("-r -f .")

The result I'm getting is:

git.exc.GitCommandError: Cmd('git') failed due to: exit code(129)
  cmdline: git rm -r -f .
  stderr: 'error: unknown switch ` '
usage: git rm [<options>] [--] <file>...

When I run the command in cmdline from the command line, everything seems to work out correctly. However, I'm not sure why it looks like git is trying to pick up another switch here. Is there something I'm not seeing?

[nmagerko]

Whoops, looks like it should be repo.git.rm("-r", "-f", "."). Sorry about that.