Question

I removed 777 files which were in Git’s branch newFeature by

rm !(example) 

I would like to commit. Git ask me to manually remove each of the removed files by

git rm file 

It would take a lot of time to write the above command for all 777 files which names are not similar.

How can I remove these 777 files in my Git branch newFeature? I want to keep them as a backup for later use, but now, I want to be without them.

Answer 1

git add -u 

It will ‘git delete’ all files you removed.

From Git add:

u
–update

Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified content for commit and marking deleted files for removal.
This is similar to what ‘git commit -a‘ does in preparation for making a commit, except that the update is limited to paths specified on the command line.
If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the current directory and its subdirectories are updated.

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The ‘plumbing way’ was indeed some kind of script one-line

for i in ` git st | grep deleted | awk ‘{print $3}’ ` ; do git rm $i; done 

or for Windows box with GnuWin32

git st | grep deleted | gawk '{print \'git rm \'$3}' | cmd 

But git add -u is the main porcelain way to do it.