Git rm several files?

Question

How do I easily remove several files without manually typing the full paths of all of them to git rm? I have plenty of modified files I\'d like to keep so remov

Answer 1

I found git rm's handling of wild cards annoying. Find can do the trick in one line: find . -name '*.c' -exec git rm {} \; the {} is where the file name will be substituted. The great thing about find is it can filter on a huge variety of file attributes not just name.

Answer 2

You can simply use:

git add -u

Answer 3

You can give wildcards to git rm.

e.g.

git rm *.c

Or you can just write down the names of all the files in another file, say filesToRemove.txt:

path/to/file.c
path/to/another/file2.c
path/to/some/other/file3.c

You can automate this:

find . -name '*.c' > filesToRemove.txt

Open the file and review the names (to make sure it's alright).

Then:

cat filesToRemove.txt | xargs git rm

Or:

for i in `cat filesToRemove.txt`; do git rm $i; done

Check the manpage for xargs for more options (esp. if it's too many files).

Answer 4

Easy way:

• Delete files in your file explorer
• use git ls-files --deleted | xargs git add to stage them. They will be removed in the remote once you push.

Git way: Referencing what @CpILL said (https://stackoverflow.com/a/34889424/6538751) use

• find . -name 'DeleteMe*.cs' -exec git rm {} \;

you can utilize wildcards.

Answer 5

For removing multiple files at once, you might want to checkout the answer here

You can delete the files that you don't want and run this command: git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)

Answer 6

You could also check out Cygwin, as it provides much of the Unix/Linux/*BSD functionality on Windows. Cygwin includes a Bash shell and find(1), among other tools mentioned above. (I usually have 2-4 Cygwin mintty terminals up at one time on Windows 7 because I find Cygwin that handy.)