How to remove a directory from git repository

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I have 2 directories on my GitHub repository  I d like to delete one of them  How could I do that without deleting and re-creating entire repository

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for deleting Empty folders   i wanted to delete an empty directory folder  i created  git can not delete it  after some research i learned Git doesn t track empty directories  If you have an empty directory in your working tree you should simply removed it with   rm -r folderName   There is no need to involve Git

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You can try this  git rm -rf  lt directory name gt   It will force delete the directory

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First git command need to know who you are before deleting anything       git init git config user name  someone  git config user email  someone someplace com   git rm -r  git commit -m  deleting dir  git push origin master

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I already had committed the folder before and want to remove the directory in the history as well   I did the following   Add folder to  gitignore   echo Folder Name   gt  gt   gitignore   Remove from all commits   git filter-branch --index-filter  git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch Folder Name   --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all   remove the refs from the old commits   git for-each-ref --format    refname   refs original    xargs -n 1 git update-ref -d   Ensure all old refs are fully removed  rm -Rf  git logs  git refs original   Perform a garbage collection  git gc --prune all --aggressive   push you changes to the online repository   git push   You are done here   But you can to the following to push all the changes to all branches with  But be careful with this command   git push origin --all --force git push origin --tags --force   After that the folder was removed from git  but was not deleted from local disk

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If you remove the files in the directory  with git rm as the other answers explain   then the directory no longer exists as far as git is concerned  You cannot commit an empty directory  nor can you remove one   This is unlike subversion where you have to explicitly svn rm emptyfolder   and is incidentally why the man page for git describes itself as  the stupid content tracker   An answer on  How do I add an empty directory to a git repository  links to the FAQ on this subject      Currently the design of the git index    staging area  only permits files to   be listed  and nobody competent enough   to make the change to allow empty   directories has cared enough about   this situation to remedy it       Directories are added automatically   when adding files inside them  That   is  directories never have to be added   to the repository  and are not tracked   on their own       You can say  git add  lt dir gt   and it   will add files in there       If you really need a directory to   exist in checkouts you should create a   file in it   gitignore works well for   this purpose  you can leave it empty    or fill in the names of files you   expect to show up in the directory

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If  for some reason  what karmakaze said doesn t work  you could try deleting the directory you want using or with your file system browser  ex  In Windows File Explorer   After deleting the directory  issuing the command   git add -A  and then  git commit -m  deleting directory   and then  git push origin master

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To add new directory   mkdir  lt YOUR-DIRECTORY gt    But now Git is not aware by this new directory  because Git keep tracks of file not directories DIRECTORY   git status   Git won t be aware with the change we ve made  so we add hidden  keep file to make Git aware by this new change   touch  YOUR-directory  keep   Now  if you hit git status Git will be aware with the changes   And If you want to delete the directory  you should use this command   rm -r  lt YOUR-DIRECTORY gt    And If you checked by using git status  you will see the directory has been removed

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To remove folder directory only from git repository and not from the local try 3 simple commands   Steps to remove directory git rm -r --cached FolderName git commit -m  quot Removed folder from repository quot  git push origin master   Steps to ignore that folder in next commits  To ignore that folder from next commits make one file in root folder  main project directory where the git is initialized  named  gitignore and put that folder name into it  You can ignore as many files folders as you want   gitignore file will look like this  FolderName

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Remove directory from git and local  You could checkout  master  with both directories    git rm -r one-of-the-directories    This deletes from filesystem git commit   -m  Remove duplicated directory  git push origin  lt your-git-branch gt   typically  master   but not always    Remove directory from git but NOT local  As mentioned in the comments  what you usually want to do is remove this directory from git but not delete it entirely from the filesystem  local   In that case use     git rm -r --cached myFolder

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try rm -r -f  lt folder name gt  or rm -r --force  lt folder name gt  - forcefully delete a folder

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I usually use git add --all to remove files   folders from remote repositories  rm -r folder name git add --all git commit -m  some comment  git push origin master   master can be replaced by any other branch of the repository

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You can use Attlasian Source Tree  Windows   https   www atlassian com software sourcetree overview    Just select files from tree and push button  Remove  at the top  Files will be deleted from local repository and local git database  Then Commit  then push

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You can delete the folder locally and then push  as follow   git rm -r folder name git commit -m  your commit  git push origin master

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Go to your git Directory then type the following command  rm -rf  lt Directory Name   After Deleting the directory commit the changes by  git commit -m  Your Commit Message   Then Simply push the changes on remote GIT directory  git push origin  lt Branch name

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A combination of the 2 answers worked for me  git rm -r one-of-the-directories git commit   -m  Remove duplicated directory  git push   if it still shows some warning  remove the files manually  git filter-branch --tree-filter  rm -rf path to your file  HEAD git push

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One of my colleague suggested BFG Repo-Cleaner which I think powerful  It is not only delete unwanted data but also clean your repository from any related commit information

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