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blackbird
blackbird

Reputation: 1137

Convert git rm to git rm --cached

I'm cleaning up binary files in a Git repo and I have a long list of files I removed with git rm.

Given the scale of the change (7000+ files) I'm now thinking it's more prudent to have used git rm --cached instead.

The files are in staging, how do I put them back on disk while keeping them out of git ?

I'm looking for a git command to do this, I'd like to avoid some nasty script hack where I git co then git rm --cached each file. Once I check them out I won't know which ones I need to delete again and I'd have to redo my work. It's a long list of specific subdirectories, not a straightforward case of rm -r *

Upvotes: 1

Views: 267

Answers (2)

kan
kan

Reputation: 28981

Just commit your staged deletions and then you could retrieve files from historical commit by git checkout HEAD~1 -- ., where you could replace . with a path(s) you want to retrieve.

Upvotes: 1

CodeWizard
CodeWizard

Reputation: 142412

To clean up your repo you should use :
https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

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To get your files you simply checkout the desired commit and it will checkout the files to your working directory.

Upvotes: 0

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