Question

If I manually go into windows explorer and delete a bunch of files, is there any way to bulk commit the change?

I believe even after doing a :

git add .

it still tells me I have to do a:

git rm /path/to/file

Which will be a bit annoying if I have tons of files to delete?

Answer 1

git add -u will stage all changes to all tracked files, including deletes.

If you have changes that aren’t deletes that you don’t want to stage you have to do something like:

git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --