Removing multiple files from a Git repo that have already been deleted from disk

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I have a Git repo that I have deleted four files from using rm (not git rm), and my Git status looks like this:

#    deleted:    file1.txt
#    deleted:    file2.txt
#    deleted:    file3.txt
#    deleted:    file4.txt

How do I remove these files from Git without having to manually go through and add each file like this:

git rm file1 file2 file3 file4

Ideally, I'm looking for something that works in the same way that git add . does, if that's possible.

git-add git-commit git-rm git
31 Answers

You can use 

git add -u

To add the deleted files to the staging area, then commit them

git commit -m "Deleted files manually"
user_253980

You're probably looking for -A:

git add -A

this is similar to git add -u, but also adds new files. This is roughly the equivalent of hg's addremove command (although the move detection is automatic).

Dustin_399750

By using git-add with '--all' or '--update' options you may get more than you wanted. New and/or modified files will also be added to the index. I have a bash alias setup for when I want to remove deleted files from git without touching other files:

alias grma='git ls-files --deleted -z | xargs -0 git rm'

All files that have been removed from the file system are added to the index as deleted.

zobie_69370

Not that it really matters, but I disagree with the chose answer:

git add -u

... will remove files from the index if the corresponding files in the working tree have been removed, but it will also stage the modified new contents of tracked files. 

git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)

... on the other hand will only rm the deleted files that were tracked.

So the latter in my view is the better option.

user_8214230

If those are the only changes, you can simply do

git commit -a

to commit all changes. That will include deleted files.

user_15771900 
git rm $(git ls-files -d)

Removes all files listed by the git ls-files command (-d show only deleted files). Doesn't work for files with spaces in the filename or path, but easy to remember

user_103857770

None of the flags to git-add will only stage removed files; if all you have modified are deleted files, then you're fine, but otherwise, you need to run git-status and parse the output.

Working off of Jeremy's answer, this is what I got:

git status |  sed -s "s/^.*deleted: //" | grep "\(\#\|commit\)" -v | xargs git rm
  1. Get status of files.
  2. For deleted files, isolate the name of the file.
  3. Remove all the lines that start with #s, as well as a status line that had the word "deleted" in it; I don't remember what it was, exactly, and it's not there any longer, so you may have to modify this for different situations. I think grouping of expressions might be a GNU-specific feature, so if you're not using gnutils, you may have to add multiple grep -v lines.
  4. Pass the files to git rm.

Sticking this in a shell alias now...

user_1209990

something like 

git status | sed -s "s/^.*deleted: //" | xargs git rm

may do it.

user_566720

Just simply

git add . && git commit -m "the message for commit" && git push
user_134156280

Deleting all files ending with .log from Repo but not local storage

git rm --cached $(git ls-files | grep "\.log$")

user_79742260
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