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nicoX
nicoX

Reputation: 311

Remove pushed files from Git repo

I have pushed up two directories with to my Git Bitbucket repo, that I now wish to remove/delete.

How I'm a suppose to make those changes? I already tried with:

git rm -rf --cached files 
git commit -a -m "Deleted files" 
git push origin master

What I recon here is that it only removed the files from my working directory but left what it was in Bitbucket as it was.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9111

Answers (4)

AndrewRMillar
AndrewRMillar

Reputation: 662

I had a similar problem not long ago and I solved it using interactive rebasing.

What you do is find the commit hash of the commit before the committed you would like to change. Let say that hash is 376c762c1b28f927595010e98e4ee82d6bc63de3

# first git checkout the correct branch
git rebase -i 376c762c1b28f927595010e98e4ee82d6bc63de3

You then get a list of all the commits after the commit of the commit hash, with a part of the commit message.

pick 376c762 Commit with wrong file
pick e145ef2 Fourth before last commit
pick d969e5b Third before last commit
pick 7b92c09 Second before last commit
pick db1dea3 First before last commit
pick ff120d6 Most recent commit message

# Rebase 621d70a..ff120d6 onto 621d70a (6 commands)
#
# Commands:
# p, pick <commit> = use commit
# r, reword <commit> = use commit, but edit the commit message
# e, edit <commit> = use commit, but stop for amending
# s, squash <commit> = use commit, but meld into previous commit
# f, fixup [-C | -c] <commit> = like "squash" but keep only the previous
#                    commit's log message, unless -C is used, in which case
#                    keep only this commit's message; -c is same as -C but
#                    opens the editor
# x, exec <command> = run command (the rest of the line) using shell
# b, break = stop here (continue rebase later with 'git rebase --continue')
# d, drop <commit> = remove commit
# l, label <label> = label current HEAD with a name
# t, reset <label> = reset HEAD to a label
# m, merge [-C <commit> | -c <commit>] <label> [# <oneline>]
...

What you can do here is change the word before the commit to edit instead of pick. In our case:

edit 376c762 Commit with wrong file

Then you save the file and exit, Ctr + X, Y and Enter if you are using nano.

You are then dropped back to the command line just after the commit. You can the do the following to undo the previous commit. The files and you will have the uncommitted changes. The prompt will show the first 7 characters of the commit hash of the commit you are currently in.

git restore HEAD^

Then you can either remove/add/change files from the commit, add and commit the change. To continue the rebase you then do:

get rebase --continue

If the same files are changed in later commits you could get conflicts you have to fix and commit before you can --continue. When the rebase is complete you will be

Upvotes: 1

Breen ho
Breen ho

Reputation: 1631

You can revert the commit, which you used to push those directories by the following commands

git reset --soft HEAD^

assuming the unwanted commit is at top of HEAD.

If it is lying before some commits, try this

git reset --soft HEAD~3

which reverts the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD. (You need to change the number '3' based on the position of your unwanted commit.)

And check git status. You should be able to see those unwanted directory as your local changes, which is yet to be committed.

Thanks!!

Upvotes: 5

Gerharbo
Gerharbo

Reputation: 286

Make sure you actually deleted the files

rm -rf directory-to-remove/

Then remove from git:

git rm -r --cached directory-to-remove/

Finally commit & push:

git commit -a -m "Deleted files"
git push origin master

Assuming your current branch is master.

Upvotes: 0

gravetii
gravetii

Reputation: 9624

You can delete all the files in the remote branch by pushing to it an empty local branch -

Say you want to remove the origin's branch trial, then you'd do git push origin :trial

Upvotes: 0

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