`git rm` is a Git command used to remove files from the working tree and from the index. Use this tag for all posts related to the usage of this command.
git rm is a Git command used to remove files from the working tree and from the index. In particular, it allows to actually start ignoring the files, listed in .gitignore.
I made a mistakes and now I can't fix it.
I have pushed an useless directory in my github repository, then I deleted it and repush the new version of my project. The problem is that the directory is still here in github WebUI but not when I pull…
Unknowingly, without finding out what the command does, i used the git rm -r command on a folder of a proyect thinking it would delete all files only inside that folder. To my surprise, all my files where deleted.
I found a way to recover my files…
My English isn't mother tongue, so I want to understand what the word "delete" or "remove" is better when we commit file deletion? For example:
rm commitedLater.file
git add -u
git commit -m "Remove/Delete the unnecessary file"
The question may…
I'm trying to stage individual files for delete, but git (v1.9.1) refuses to stage them because the folder where they used to reside has already been deleted.
I cannot use git add -u because it will stage all modified and deleted files. If I do
git…
A previous poster wanted to track a file in one branch and not in another; I just want to not track it at all.
I used to have ".p4client" tracked in git, which turned out to be a mistake. So I deleted it from the repository, added the name to…
I have commit by mistake before setting the .gitignore.
Now I am cleaning up my repository.
I use :
git update-index --assume-unchanged fileToBeUntracked
and then I remove them from repository , I mean I want to remove from the index but keep…
I eliminated some files of my project. I want to pass all the eliminated files to staging area with some as git rm ., but I want to pass all the files at once using wildcards.
What's the good way to stage the eliminated…
Often I'll delete a file (via Finder) while dealing with merge conflicts. When I go to conclude my merge, I try git rm my_file.txt and I get an error that fatal: unable to stat 'my_file.txt': No such file or directory.
Do I have to go to the CLI…
I did a git rm -r -f on an ENTIRE directory in a new repo before I had ever committed. I had no branches.
I tried the answers on Stack Overflow, but none helped. I tried this:
git reset --hard HEAD
But got this:
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD':…
I think I might have screwed my days work but I did this chain of commands
git status
git add .
git rm filename1
git rm filename2
I then stupidly thought why am I doing this one by one I know there is a way to do it all at once
git rm -r…
I'm having trouble understanding what does git rm --cached do.
For example, I have a beagle_pft_test repo and a list of submodules inside "components folder". doing git rm --cached would delete it form the .git folder?:
Because when I type the…
I am trying to delete a file after git push. I initially tried to git rm myFile, but this resulted in deleting the file locally and not deleting the file from my repo. When I click on my branch, I see
Conflict: Deleted on Source, Modified on…
Here's the hierarchy of the 3 Branches in this story:
"master" branch
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JohnReedAvery
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Birdy
Earlier today, I finished a couple of scripts in the "Birdy" branch, and I wanted to merge "Birdy" (those 2 scripts) into…
If we want to delete a file (say file1.txt) and stop the git repo to track it, it is said that we should use git rm file1.txt and then git commit -m "..." it. But deleting from the working directory by OS, rm file1.txt, add . and then git commit -m…
I have a directory with a single file Foo.java defining a class under package com.a.b.c under a specific package i.e. src/com/a/b/c/Foo.java
I want to refactor and move the class in a different package e.g. com.x.y.x i.e. src/com/x/y/z/Foo.java
I…
