How can I list all the deleted files in a Git repository

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I know Git stores information of when files get deleted and I am able to check individual commits to see which files have been removed  but is there a command that would generate a list of every deleted file across a repository s lifespan

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git log --diff-filter D --summary   See Find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository  If you don t want all the information about which commit they were removed in  you can just add a grep delete in there   git log --diff-filter D --summary   grep delete

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Since Windows doesn t have a grep command  this worked for me in PowerShell   git log --find-renames --diff-filter D --summary   Select-String -Pattern  delete mode    sort -u  gt  deletions txt

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Citing this Stack nbsp Overflow answer   It is a pretty neat way to get type-of-change  A Added  M Modified  D Deleted  for each file that got changed   git diff --name-status

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This will get you a list of all files that were deleted in all branches  sorted by their path   git log --diff-filter D --summary   grep  delete mode 100    cut -c 21-   sort  gt  deleted txt   Works in msysgit  2 6 1 windows 1   Note we need  delete mode 100  as git files may have been commited as mode 100644 or 100755

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This does what you want  I think   git log --all --pretty format  --name-only --diff-filter D   sort -u       which I ve just taken more-or-less directly from this other answer

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And if you want to somehow constrain the results here s a nice one     git log --diff-filter D --summary   sed -n    commit h    some dir    G s  ncommit          1 gp   delete mode 100644 blah some dir file1 d3bfbbeba5b5c1da73c432cb3fb61990bdcf6f64 delete mode 100644 blah some dir file2 d3bfbbeba5b5c1da73c432cb3fb61990bdcf6f64 delete mode 100644 blah some dir file3 9c89b91d8df7c95c6043184154c476623414fcb7   You ll get all files deleted from some dir  see the sed command  together with the commit number in which it happen  Any sed regex will do  I use this to find deleted file types  etc

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If you re only interested in seeing the currently deleted files  you can use this   git ls-files --deleted   if you then want to remove them  in case you deleted them not using  git rm   pipe that result to xargs git rm  git ls-files --deleted   xargs git rm

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Show all deleted files in some branch  git diff origin master   origin some branch --name-status   grep  D   or  git diff origin master   origin some branch --name-status --diff-filter D

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