6 git-rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index
10 'git rm' [-f | --force] [-n] [-r] [--cached] [--ignore-unmatch] [--quiet] [--] <file>...
14 Remove files from the index, or from the working tree and the index.
15 'git-rm' will not remove a file from just your working directory.
16 (There is no option to remove a file only from the work tree
17 and yet keep it in the index; use `/bin/rm` if you want to do that.)
18 The files being removed have to be identical to the tip of the branch,
19 and no updates to their contents can be staged in the index,
20 though that default behavior can be overridden with the `-f` option.
21 When '--cached' is given, the staged content has to
22 match either the tip of the branch or the file on disk,
23 allowing the file to be removed from just the index.
29 Files to remove. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can be given to
30 remove all matching files. If you want git to expand
31 file glob characters, you may need to shell-escape them.
32 A leading directory name
33 (e.g. `dir` to remove `dir/file1` and `dir/file2`) can be
34 given to remove all files in the directory, and recursively
36 but this requires the `-r` option to be explicitly given.
40 Override the up-to-date check.
44 Don't actually remove any file(s). Instead, just show
45 if they exist in the index and would otherwise be removed
49 Allow recursive removal when a leading directory name is
53 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
54 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
55 for command-line options).
58 Use this option to unstage and remove paths only from the index.
59 Working tree files, whether modified or not, will be
63 Exit with a zero status even if no files matched.
67 'git-rm' normally outputs one line (in the form of an "rm" command)
68 for each file removed. This option suppresses that output.
74 The <file> list given to the command can be exact pathnames,
75 file glob patterns, or leading directory names. The command
76 removes only the paths that are known to git. Giving the name of
77 a file that you have not told git about does not remove that file.
79 File globbing matches across directory boundaries. Thus, given
80 two directories `d` and `d2`, there is a difference between
81 using `git rm \'d\*\'` and `git rm \'d/\*\'`, as the former will
82 also remove all of directory `d2`.
86 git rm Documentation/\\*.txt::
87 Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the
88 `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
90 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
91 example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
92 of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory.
95 Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk
96 (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it
97 does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
105 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
109 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
113 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite