First off, I'm new to Git.
I deleted a bunch of files locally on my Mac using Finder. I want the files that I deleted to no longer show in the current branch, but they do.
Any Git users know a command to update the index?
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See also stackoverflow.com/questions/492558/…Petr Gladkikh– Petr Gladkikh2012-11-15 10:51:40 +00:00Commented Nov 15, 2012 at 10:51
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I think this would be a simpler way to do what you want:
git add . -A
Then you would just do:
git commit -m "removed some files"
As noted above.
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Zack
Thank you. And I had just written alias in
bash to do the above. Amazing.
Koen
If you added a file in the same "stage" git will assume a rename. Anything to do about that or should you commit those separately?
j08691
@KimPrince - According to kernel.org, "-A --all Like -u, but match <filepattern> against files in the working tree in addition to the index. That means that it will find new files as well as staging modified content and removing files that are no longer in the working tree."
Marcin Orlowski
@KimPrince
git help add will tell you what -A means and lists all other switches as well.
Alex
This does a lot more than just removing deleted files. It adds all files that are changed in the directory so this is not really a satisfactory answer.
You can see deleted files, which are still 'tracked' with:
git ls-files --deleted
To delete files from a branch, you can do something like this:
git ls-files --deleted -z | xargs -0 git rm
From man git-rm:
Remove files from the index, or from the working tree and the index. git-rm will not remove a file from just your working directory. (There is no option to remove a file 13 only from the work tree and yet keep it in the index; use /bin/rm if you want to do that.)
Finally, to commit the "removal" do something like:
git commit -m "removed some files"
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James Polley
Then you need to commit the change -
git commit -m "removed some files"I don't know if this has been added to git since the previous answers, but I just used
git add -u
git commit -m "Removed some files"
to achieve the same thing.
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Alex
This works for the listed use case, but this does not just add the deletion of the files. It adds all of the files that have been changed in any way, so this is not generally a good way to remove all deleted files unless that's the only changes you've made.
git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch deletefile.name' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
git commit -m "Removed deletefile.name"
git push origin master --force
Replace deletefile.name with the file to remove. For in-depth detailed explanation go through the nice article https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data
