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Toby
Toby

Reputation: 8792

How can I list all the deleted files in a Git repository?

I know Git stores information of when files get deleted and I am able to check individual commits to see which files have been removed, but is there a command that would generate a list of every deleted file across a repository's lifespan?

Upvotes: 414

Views: 168799

Answers (9)

Mark Longair
Mark Longair

Reputation: 467031

This does what you want, I think:

git log --all --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=D | sort -u

... which I've just taken more-or-less directly from this other answer.

This prints only file paths without other info:

BETA.md
CONTRIBUTING.md
files/en-us/api/file_api/index.html
files/en-us/games/index/index.md
files/en-us/games/visual-js_game_engine/index.html
files/en-us/games/visual_js_ge/index.html
files/en-us/games/visual_typescript_game_engine/index.html
...

Upvotes: 113

Aman Kumar
Aman Kumar

Reputation: 61

If you want the names purely separated by a newline character, you can use the --name-only flag like this:

git diff --diff-filter=D --name-only <old-commit-hash> <new-commit-hash>

Upvotes: 2

user3275211
user3275211

Reputation:

Citing this Stack Overflow answer.

It is a pretty neat way to get type-of-change (A:Added, M:Modified, D:Deleted) for each file that got changed.

git diff --name-status HEAD~1000

Upvotes: 23

vix2
vix2

Reputation: 51

Show all deleted files in some_branch

git diff origin/master...origin/some_branch --name-status | grep ^D

or

git diff origin/master...origin/some_branch --name-status --diff-filter=D

Upvotes: 5

James Skemp
James Skemp

Reputation: 8551

Since Windows doesn't have a grep command, this worked for me in PowerShell:

git log --find-renames --diff-filter=D --summary | Select-String -Pattern "delete mode" | sort -u > deletions.txt

Upvotes: 5

Mr_and_Mrs_D
Mr_and_Mrs_D

Reputation: 34016

This will get you a list of all files that were deleted in all branches, sorted by their path:

git log --diff-filter=D --summary | grep "delete mode 100" | cut -c 21- | sort > deleted.txt

Works in msysgit (2.6.1.windows.1). Note we need "delete mode 100" as git files may have been commited as mode 100644 or 100755.

Upvotes: 1

Jim Clouse
Jim Clouse

Reputation: 8970

If you're only interested in seeing the currently deleted files, you can use this:

git ls-files --deleted

if you then want to remove them (in case you deleted them not using "git rm") pipe that result to xargs git rm

git ls-files --deleted | xargs git rm

Upvotes: 52

estani
estani

Reputation: 26457

And if you want to somehow constrain the results here's a nice one:

$ git log --diff-filter=D --summary | sed -n '/^commit/h;/\/some_dir\//{G;s/\ncommit \(.*\)/ \1/gp}'
delete mode 100644 blah/some_dir/file1 d3bfbbeba5b5c1da73c432cb3fb61990bdcf6f64
delete mode 100644 blah/some_dir/file2 d3bfbbeba5b5c1da73c432cb3fb61990bdcf6f64
delete mode 100644 blah/some_dir/file3 9c89b91d8df7c95c6043184154c476623414fcb7

You'll get all files deleted from some_dir (see the sed command) together with the commit number in which it happen. Any sed regex will do (I use this to find deleted file types, etc)

Upvotes: 5

I82Much
I82Much

Reputation: 27326

git log --diff-filter=D --summary

See Find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository

If you don't want all the information about which commit they were removed in, you can just add a grep delete in there.

git log --diff-filter=D --summary | grep delete

Upvotes: 539

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