Remove node_modules from git in vscode

Question

Getting error while removing node_modules in git, vscode terminal

 git rm -r --cached node_modules

Error:

Answer 1

The error means node_modules directory is not under git version control. There are 2 possibilities:

• They are not added to Git yet. Try running git status command, to see whether they appear as untracked files.

• It has already been added into your gitignore file. To list all ignored files, try this command: git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard