`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.
According to the git rm documentation, this is how it behaves:
Remove files from the index, or from the working tree and the index
If I just did a commit and my index is empty, executing git rm some_file will stage the deletion of some_file. I…
I'm using GitLab to access git repository of my code.
I don't have any clone or any part of code on my local machine. I want to delete few of the folders and files from the git repository without making a clone of that code on my local machine. I…
I'm a new comer to git. I found something interesting.
Say if I add a file and commit. After I checkout to the previous version, the file doesn't exist as I expected. (Since in the last commit, it hadn't been created)
However, if I remove a file and…
Dumb rookie mistake. Initialize a git repository in /usr/local/Library.
git init
git add -A
Whoops, don't want to commit all those files
git rm -rf .
ls # EMPTY
Didn't do an initial commit, so git reset HEAD doesn't work. Is there a way to recover…
I have used this post Removing multiple files from a Git repo that have already been deleted from disk to figure out how to remove multiple files with git rm at once.
Now, I'd like to do this, excluding one directory. I tried this:
git rm $(git…
I'm using PHPstorm and I want to remove hidden folder .idea from git index. When I used $git status I got
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ampps\www\1stenglish IS [master +1 ~0 -0 !]> git status
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add…
I have done the following (in order to learn git rm).
Created an empty repository on an empty folder.
Created a file called test.txt, modify it and then run the following (with the consequent results).
git rm test.txt -> `fatal: pathspec 'test.txt'…
When I type:
git rm -r --cached bin/
I get the following:
fatal: pathspec 'bin/' did not match any files
The folder exists. I don't know why this is not working. I've found several answers that say this is the correct syntax.
Suppose I have tracked file empty.txt.
Now I remove file from working directory using rm empty.txt .
Now I am removing file from index using git rm empty.txt and now file should be untracked since I have removed it from index.
After this I used git…
So, I want to upload a project to GitHub, I have to create a new branch per assignment requests, but when I created it, it cloned what I had in another branch and made it the default branch and for SOME STUPID F. REASON, GitHub doesn't have a simple…
i accidentally removed file from his repository in github (and i had a lot of changes in some of my files, because i didn't push them yet), and after i remote back to the same repository in github -iv'e added the files again, i made a commit to the…
