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406 git-rm(
1) Manual Page
409 <div class=
"sectionbody">
411 Remove files from the working tree and from the index
415 <h2 id=
"_synopsis">SYNOPSIS
</h2>
416 <div class=
"sectionbody">
417 <div class=
"verseblock">
418 <div class=
"verseblock-content"><em>git rm
</em> [-f | --force] [-n] [-r] [--cached] [--ignore-unmatch] [--quiet] [--]
<file
>…</div>
419 <div class=
"verseblock-attribution">
422 <h2 id=
"_description">DESCRIPTION
</h2>
423 <div class=
"sectionbody">
424 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Remove files from the index, or from the working tree and the index.
425 <tt>git rm
</tt> will not remove a file from just your working directory.
426 (There is no option to remove a file only from the working tree
427 and yet keep it in the index; use
<tt>/bin/rm
</tt> if you want to do that.)
428 The files being removed have to be identical to the tip of the branch,
429 and no updates to their contents can be staged in the index,
430 though that default behavior can be overridden with the
<tt>-f
</tt> option.
431 When
<tt>--cached
</tt> is given, the staged content has to
432 match either the tip of the branch or the file on disk,
433 allowing the file to be removed from just the index.
</p></div>
435 <h2 id=
"_options">OPTIONS
</h2>
436 <div class=
"sectionbody">
437 <div class=
"dlist"><dl>
443 Files to remove. Fileglobs (e.g.
<tt>*.c
</tt>) can be given to
444 remove all matching files. If you want git to expand
445 file glob characters, you may need to shell-escape them.
446 A leading directory name
447 (e.g.
<tt>dir
</tt> to remove
<tt>dir/file1
</tt> and
<tt>dir/file2
</tt>) can be
448 given to remove all files in the directory, and recursively
450 but this requires the
<tt>-r
</tt> option to be explicitly given.
461 Override the up-to-date check.
472 Don
’t actually remove any file(s). Instead, just show
473 if they exist in the index and would otherwise be removed
482 Allow recursive removal when a leading directory name is
491 This option can be used to separate command-line options from
492 the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
493 for command-line options).
501 Use this option to unstage and remove paths only from the index.
502 Working tree files, whether modified or not, will be
511 Exit with a zero status even if no files matched.
522 <tt>git rm
</tt> normally outputs one line (in the form of an
<tt>rm
</tt> command)
523 for each file removed. This option suppresses that output.
528 <h2 id=
"_discussion">DISCUSSION
</h2>
529 <div class=
"sectionbody">
530 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The
<file
> list given to the command can be exact pathnames,
531 file glob patterns, or leading directory names. The command
532 removes only the paths that are known to git. Giving the name of
533 a file that you have not told git about does not remove that file.
</p></div>
534 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>File globbing matches across directory boundaries. Thus, given
535 two directories
<tt>d
</tt> and
<tt>d2
</tt>, there is a difference between
536 using
<tt>git rm
'd
*'</tt> and
537 <tt>git rm
'd/
*'</tt>, as the former will
538 also remove all of directory
<tt>d2
</tt>.
</p></div>
540 <h2 id=
"_removing_files_that_have_disappeared_from_the_filesystem">REMOVING FILES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILESYSTEM
</h2>
541 <div class=
"sectionbody">
542 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>There is no option for
<tt>git rm
</tt> to remove from the index only
543 the paths that have disappeared from the filesystem. However,
544 depending on the use case, there are several ways that can be
546 <h3 id=
"_using_8220_git_commit_a_8221">Using
“git commit -a
”</h3><div style=
"clear:left"></div>
547 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If you intend that your next commit should record all modifications
548 of tracked files in the working tree and record all removals of
549 files that have been removed from the working tree with
<tt>rm
</tt>
550 (as opposed to
<tt>git rm
</tt>), use
<tt>git commit -a
</tt>, as it will
551 automatically notice and record all removals. You can also have a
552 similar effect without committing by using
<tt>git add -u
</tt>.
</p></div>
553 <h3 id=
"_using_8220_git_add_a_8221">Using
“git add -A
”</h3><div style=
"clear:left"></div>
554 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>When accepting a new code drop for a vendor branch, you probably
555 want to record both the removal of paths and additions of new paths
556 as well as modifications of existing paths.
</p></div>
557 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Typically you would first remove all tracked files from the working
558 tree using this command:
</p></div>
559 <div class=
"listingblock">
560 <div class=
"content">
561 <pre><tt>git ls-files -z | xargs -
0 rm -f
</tt></pre>
563 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>and then untar the new code in the working tree. Alternately
564 you could
<em>rsync
</em> the changes into the working tree.
</p></div>
565 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>After that, the easiest way to record all removals, additions, and
566 modifications in the working tree is:
</p></div>
567 <div class=
"listingblock">
568 <div class=
"content">
569 <pre><tt>git add -A
</tt></pre>
571 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>See
<a href=
"git-add.html">git-add(
1)
</a>.
</p></div>
572 <h3 id=
"_other_ways">Other ways
</h3><div style=
"clear:left"></div>
573 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If all you really want to do is to remove from the index the files
574 that are no longer present in the working tree (perhaps because
575 your working tree is dirty so that you cannot use
<tt>git commit -a
</tt>),
576 use the following command:
</p></div>
577 <div class=
"listingblock">
578 <div class=
"content">
579 <pre><tt>git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -
0 git rm --cached
</tt></pre>
582 <h2 id=
"_examples">EXAMPLES
</h2>
583 <div class=
"sectionbody">
584 <div class=
"dlist"><dl>
586 <tt>git rm Documentation/\*.txt
</tt>
590 Removes all
<tt>*.txt
</tt> files from the index that are under the
591 <tt>Documentation
</tt> directory and any of its subdirectories.
593 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Note that the asterisk
<tt>*
</tt> is quoted from the shell in this
594 example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
595 of files and subdirectories under the
<tt>Documentation/
</tt> directory.
</p></div>
598 <tt>git rm -f git-*.sh
</tt>
602 Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk
603 (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it
604 does not remove
<tt>subdir/git-foo.sh
</tt>.
609 <h2 id=
"_see_also">SEE ALSO
</h2>
610 <div class=
"sectionbody">
611 <div class=
"paragraph"><p><a href=
"git-add.html">git-add(
1)
</a></p></div>
613 <h2 id=
"_git">GIT
</h2>
614 <div class=
"sectionbody">
615 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Part of the
<a href=
"git.html">git(
1)
</a> suite
</p></div>
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"footer-text">
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