Staging Deleted files

Question

Say I have a file in my git repository called foo  Suppose it has been deleted with rm  not git rm    Then git status will show  Changes not staged for commit       deleted  foo  How do I stage this individual file deletion  If I try  git add foo  It says   foo  did not match any files   Update  9 years later  lol   This looks like it has been fixed in git 2 x    git --version git version 2 25 1    mkdir repo    cd repo    git init   Initialized empty Git repository in repo  git     touch foo bar baz    git add foo bar baz    git commit -m  quot initial commit quot   master  root-commit  79c736b  initial commit 3 files changed  0 insertions     0 deletions -  create mode 100644 bar create mode 100644 baz create mode 100644 foo    rm foo    git status On branch master Changes not staged for commit      deleted  foo    git add foo    git status On branch master Changes to be committed      deleted     foo

User · Answer

If you want to simply add all the deleted files to stage then you can use git add .

This is the easiest way right now with git v2.27.0. Note that using * and . are different approaches. Using git add * would only add currently present files whereas git add . would also stage the files deleted with rm command.

It's obvious but worth mentioning that other files which have been modified would also be added to the staging area when you use git add ..

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To stage all manually deleted files you can use   git rm   git ls-files --deleted    To add an alias to this command as git rm-deleted  run   git config --global alias rm-deleted   git rm   git ls-files --deleted

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Since Git 2 0 0  git add will also stage file deletions  Git 2 0 0 Docs - git-add   lt  pathspec  gt     Files to add content from  Fileglobs  e g    c  can be given to add all matching files  Also a leading directory name  e g  dir to add dir file1 and dir file2  can be given to update the index to match the current state of the directory as a whole  e g  specifying dir will record not just a file dir file1 modified in the working tree  a file dir file2 added to the working tree  but also a file dir file3 removed from the working tree  Note that older versions of Git used to ignore removed files  use --no-all option if you want to add modified or new files but ignore removed ones

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to Add all ready deleted files   git status -s   grep -E    D    cut -d     -f3   xargs git add --all   thank check to make sure  git status   you should be good to go

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Even though it s correct to use git rm  FILE   alternatively  you could do git add -u   According to the git-add documentation      -u   --update      Update the index just where it already has an entry matching  FILE   This removes as well as modifies index entries to match   the working tree  but adds no new files       If no  FILE  is given when -u option is used  all tracked files in the entire working tree are updated  old versions of Git used   to limit the update to the current directory and its subdirectories     Upon which the index will be refreshed and files will be properly staged

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Ian Mackinnon found the answer  but it s better with xargs  git ls-files --deleted -z   xargs -r0 git rm  As a git alias  git config --global alias rm-deleted   git ls-files --deleted -z   xargs -r0 git rm   This uses xargs with NUL termination  the only byte guarranteed not to appear in a path  and the option to not run git rm if the file list is empty  This syntax is also fish compatible

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for those using git 2 x  in powershell   foreach   filePath in  git ls-files --deleted     git add   filePath

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Use git rm foo to stage the file for deletion   This will also delete the file from the file system  if it hadn t been previously deleted  It can  of course  be restored from git  since it was previously checked in    To stage the file for deletion without deleting it from the file system  use git rm --cached foo

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You can use this command   git add   git ls-files --deleted

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You can use   git rm -r --cached --  path to directory   to stage a deleted directory

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