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Removing multiple files from a Git repo that have already been deleted from disk

I have a Git repo that I have deleted four files from using rm (not git rm), and my Git status looks like this:

# deleted: file1.txt # deleted: file2.txt # deleted: file3.txt # deleted: file4.txt

How do I remove these files from Git without having to manually go through and add each file like this:

git rm file1…

How to: Completely remove file from all Git repository commit history

Completely remove file from all Git repository commit history

I accidentally committed an unwanted file (filename.orig while resolving a merge) to my repository several commits ago, without me noticing it until now. I want to completely delete the file from the repository history. Is it possible to rewrite the change history such that filename.origwas never added to the repository in the first…

How to: Removing multiple files from a Git repo that have already been deleted from disk

Removing multiple files from a Git repo that have already been deleted from disk

I have a Git repo that I have deleted four files from using rm (not git rm), and my Git status looks like this:

# deleted: file1.txt # deleted: file2.txt # deleted: file3.txt # deleted: file4.txt

How do I remove these files from Git without having to manually go through and add each file like this:

git rm file1…

Git has the following entities to consider:

1) working directory

2) staging index

3) commited

What happens if you make changes to a file in a git repository at each of these stages and want to revert them? 1) Fairly easy, nothing has been added into git. You can get the copy of the file currently stored in git with

git checkout -- filename

The double-dash is to disambiguate the command from that which would checkout a branch with the same name as "filename" 2) To remove a single file from

git mv file_from file_to

is a shortcut for:

mv file_from file_to git rm file_from git add file_to

To remove tracked and previously committed file from your git repository use this command:

git rm file-name-or-glob

File removal will be staged for the next commit.

Let's say you accidentally added some change for the next commit using `git add`. Now your `git status` looks like this:

# On branch some-branch # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD ..." to unstage) # # new file: new-file.txt # modified: other-file.txt #

Let's say you only want to commit a modification of the `other-file.txt` but not the fact that you created a new file `new-file.txt`. To remove `new-file.txt` from the index/staged area run this command:

git reset HEAD new-file.txt

Now your `git status` will look like this:

# On branch some-branch # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD ..." to unstage) # # modified: file.txt # # Untracked files: # (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) # # new-file.txt