-1

Installed TortoiseGit, then I accidentally pressed the menu when I am doing right click on my desktop I don't know which one in the menu I pressed, then my desktop refreshes and all my desktop icon have now blue plus icon. How can I remove this ? Looks like my icon desktop will be added to my github repository if I will do commit.

enter image description here

jemz
  • 4,987
  • 18
  • 62
  • 102
  • Can you provide a screenshot? – Epic Aug 30 '15 at 06:54
  • The [manual](https://tortoisegit.org/docs/tortoisegit/tgit-dug-ignore.html) is telling you how to ignore files. Additionally you could add those file to your [`.gitignore`](http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore) manually. – albert Aug 30 '15 at 07:12
  • Does right-clicking on any of these files with "blue plus icon" allow any **revert / undo-add** TortoiseGit menu option? – TheCodeArtist Aug 30 '15 at 07:49
  • 3
    Sounds/looks like you probably accidentally initialized your desktop as a git repository. If you didn't mean to do that, you can delete the hidden `.git` directory on your desktop to undo it. You'll need to temporarily change your settings in control panel to show hidden dirs/files to see it in explorer. If you don't see it there, check its parent directories – lemonhead Aug 30 '15 at 07:58
  • possible duplicate of [Git remove --cached by Tortoise Git](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10426895/git-remove-cached-by-tortoise-git) – TheCodeArtist Aug 30 '15 at 07:58

1 Answers1

0

To remove staged files

git rm --cached

Or in TortoiseGit you may use "delete (keep local)"

This will unstage all changes, you have to stage the relevant files again.

This is not a duplicate but may relate to Git remove --cached by Tortoise Git (answer by @linquize)

Community
  • 1
  • 1
joran
  • 2,815
  • 16
  • 18