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Reputation: 1344

How to 'Git Remove' files from a deleted folder?

I am using git remove git rm. I made the simple/stupid mistake of manually deleting a folder with all the files in it BEFORE I used git rm.

Now I have >15 files that I want to delete from my repo but NOT type out.

Is there a way to do this?

git status

deleted:    Literature/abc.md
deleted:    Literature/acdf.pdf
deleted:    Literature/dsfsdf.pdf
deleted:    Literature/dfgdfs.pdf
deleted:    Literature/sgadfgaa.md
deleted:    Literature/sdsds.pdf
deleted:    Literature/sddvasds.rmd
deleted:    Literature/ddsds.md
deleted:    Literature/fsdfsdsd.png

Upvotes: 3

Views: 99

Answers (3)

Mohamed Anees A
Mohamed Anees A

Reputation: 4591

If you have no other changes currently, and you are sure you need to revert back to the last committed state,

you can use , git reset --hard which moves the HEAD to last committed hash and discarding all your local changes after that commit

Or, safer way is to do a git reset {path to your deleted folder} first, to make the files unstaged for next commit, and then doing git checkout -- {path to your deleted folder} as suggested by @RomainValeri

Upvotes: 1

Ssquare
Ssquare

Reputation: 1

You can use the command

git rm -r --cached

For more details follow the link Bit Bucket Documentation

Upvotes: 0

Romain Valeri
Romain Valeri

Reputation: 21908

Yes they're deleted from your worktree, but these files were saved in last revision*, so you just have to restore these files as they were at last commit :

git checkout -- full/path/to/Literature/

then rm them as you intended in the first place.

* (unless these are new added files but you didn't say so)

Upvotes: 1

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