How to remove multiple deleted files in Git repository

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I have deleted some files and git status shows as below   I have committed and pushed    GitHub still shows the deleted files in the repository  How can I delete files in the GitHub repository     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     modules welcome language english kaimonokago lang php     deleted     modules welcome language french kaimonokago lang php     deleted     modules welcome language german kaimonokago lang php     deleted     modules welcome language norwegian kaimonokago lang php   If I use git rm  it gives the following   usage  git rm  options   --   lt file gt      -n  --dry-run         dry run -q  --quiet           do not list removed files --cached              only remove from the index -f  --force           override the up-to-date check -r                    allow recursive removal --ignore-unmatch      exit with a zero status even if nothing matched

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Here is how to detect deleted files and stage their deletion as part of the next commit. All the solutions on this thread have different merits. This solution bellow specifically deals with the problem of file names with spaces in them.

git status --porcelain | awk '/^.D .*$/ {print $0}' | sed 's/.D \(.*\)/\1/' | tr -d '"' | xargs -I {} git rm '{}'

make sure you test this with git's --dry-run option before running it with the following:

git status --porcelain | awk '/^.D .*$/ {print $0}' | sed 's/.D \(.*\)/\1/' | tr -d '"' | xargs -I {} git rm --dry-run '{}'

explanation:

git status --porcelain

This prints out something like D "/path to a folder/path to a file" which happens only when there are spaces in the path names

awk '/^.D .*$/ {print $0}'

match only lines that start with " D "

sed 's/ D \(.*\)/\1/'

remove " D " from the front of each string

tr -d '"'

remove quotes, if any

xargs -I {} git rm '{}'

define file name variables as {} run file name under git rm enclosed in single quotes in order to make sure that it supports file names with spaces.

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If you want to delete all of them by using  git rm   This is what I do   git ls-files --deleted -z   xargs -0 git rm   This query lists of all the files that have been removed and deletes them from your git repository  Hope it helps

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You can use   git commit -m  remove files  -a git push   After you had delete files manually

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git status   sed  s    s deleted  s       sed  s           xargs git rm -rf

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You can create a shell script which will remove all your files when run   git status   grep deleted   awk   print  git rm    3     gt     remove sh   The script that is created is remove sh and it contains the full list of git rm commands

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Try this    git rm  git ls-files -d

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The best solution if you don t care about staging modified files is to use git add -u as said by mshameers and or pb2q   If you just want to remove deleted files  but not stage any modified ones  I think you should use the ls-files argument with the --deleted option  no need to use regex or other complex args options     git ls-files --deleted   xargs git rm

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The built in clean function can also be helpful     git clean -fd

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Be very cautious about git rm    it might remove more than you want   Of course  you can recover  but it is simpler not to have to do so   Simplest would be   git rm modules welcome language english kaimonokago lang php          modules welcome language french kaimonokago lang php          modules welcome language german kaimonokago lang php          modules welcome language norwegian kaimonokago lang php   You can t use shell wildcards because the files don t exist  but you could use  in Bash at least    git rm modules welcome language  english french german norwegian  kaimonokago lang php   Or consider   git status   sed -n       deleted  s   p    xargs git rm   This takes the output of git status  doesn t print anything by default  sed -n   but on lines that start   deleted   it gets rid of the   and the deleted  and prints what is left  xargs gathers up the arguments and provides them to a git rm command   This works for any number of files regardless of similarity  or dissimilarity  in the names

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git add -u    git add --update

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git add -u    updates all your changes

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I had this issue of ghost files appearing in my repo after I deleted them and came across this neat command   git add -A  It s essentially the same as git add -a and git add -u combined  but it s case sensitive  I got it from this awesome link  this link points to the version on archive org now  because the original has converted to a spam phishing page as of June 2016

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Another version to ByScripts answer is   git rm   git ls-files --deleted    This will ONLY remove the deleted files from the git   It could be also be used for adding ONLY modified files also   git add   git ls-files --modified    These commands also works on gitbash for windows

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When I have a lot of files I ve deleted that are unstaged for commit  you can git rm them all in one show with   for i in  git status   grep deleted   awk   print  3     do git rm  i  done   As question answerer mentioned  be careful with git rm

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Yes  git rm  lt filename gt  will stage the deleted state of a file  where  lt filename gt  could be a glob pattern     git rm modules welcome language   kaimonokago lang php rm modules welcome language english kaimonokago lang php rm modules welcome language french kaimonokago lang php rm modules welcome language german kaimonokago lang php rm modules welcome language norwegian kaimonokago lang php    git status   On branch master   Changes to be committed       use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage            deleted     modules welcome language english kaimonokago lang php               Then  you can commit   git commit -a will do this in one go  if you want   You can also use git add -u to stage all the changes  including all the deleted files  then commit

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Update all changes you made   git add -u   The deleted files should change from unstaged  usually red color  to staged  green   Then commit to remove the deleted files   git commit -m  note

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