Git How to commit a manually deleted file

Question

In my git repository I manually deleted a file rm  after moving it to another folder  I than committed all the changes to my repo but now when I do git status    ronnie ronnie  home github Vimfiles Vim  git status     On branch master   Changes not staged for commit       use  git add rm  lt file gt      to update what will be committed       use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory            deleted     plugin dwm vim   no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     Now  how should I commit so that dwm vim is deleted from the plugin folder in my remote repo  I know that I have to use git add  amp  amp  git commit but I have no file to commit add because  plugin dwm vim is already deleted

User · Accepted Answer

The answer s here  I think   It s better if you do git rm  lt fileName gt   though

User · Answer

It says right there in the output of git status        use  git add rm  lt file gt      to update what will be committed    so just do   git rm  lt filename gt

User · Answer

Use git add -A  this will include the deleted files   Note  use git rm for certain files

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