title: How to interpret "deleted by us" after git rebase interactive
body: <p>While working on a a feature-specific branch (from the 'development' branch), I took the wrong approach (a few times :/) and essentially want to delete all my commits on this branch before my current commit.</p>
  
  <p>What I've done before in this type of situation is to do a <code>git rebase -i development</code> and delete all commits before the one I want to keep (the most current) and then do a git push --force to update the remote repo to contain only my most recent golden commit.</p>
  
  <p>After doing this, when its time for me to commit the changes for this rebase commit, it looks like git is responding a bit strangely to my request. There are a few files that it says</p>
  
  <pre><code>both modified:      app/helpers/statistics_helper.rb
  deleted by us:      app/models/referrals/chart.rb
  deleted by us:      app/views/statistics/_referrals.html.haml
  deleted by us:      app/views/statistics/_referrals2.html.haml
  deleted by us:      app/views/statistics/_referrals3.html.haml
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I dont know how to respond to this. if I <code>git add</code> the files that are preceded by "deleted by us", will it delete these files?</p>