Documentation/git-rm.txt

   1 git-rm(1)
   2 =========
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index
   7
   8 SYNOPSIS
   9 --------
  10 'git-rm' [-f] [-n] [-v] [--] <file>...
  11
  12 DESCRIPTION
  13 -----------
  14 A convenience wrapper for git-update-index --remove. For those coming
  15 from cvs, git-rm provides an operation similar to "cvs rm" or "cvs
  16 remove".
  17
  18
  19 OPTIONS
  20 -------
  21 <file>...::
  22         Files to remove from the index and optionally, from the
  23         working tree as well.
  24
  25 -f::
  26         Remove files from the working tree as well as from the index.
  27
  28 -n::
  29         Don't actually remove the file(s), just show if they exist in
  30         the index.
  31
  32 -v::
  33         Be verbose.
  34
  35 \--::
  36         This option can be used to separate command-line options from
  37         the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
  38         for command-line options).
  39
  40
  41 DISCUSSION
  42 ----------
  43
  44 The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
  45 command to list files that are registered in the index and
  46 are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
  47 `.gitignore` file in each directory.  This means two things:
  48
  49 . You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and the
  50   command will remove all files in it and its subdirectories (the
  51   directories themselves are never removed from the working tree);
  52
  53 . Giving the name of a file that is not in the index does not
  54   remove that file.
  55
  56
  57 EXAMPLES
  58 --------
  59 git-rm Documentation/\\*.txt::
  60
  61         Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the
  62         `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories. The
  63         files are not removed from the working tree.
  64 +
  65 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
  66 example; this lets the command include the files from
  67 subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
  68
  69 git-rm -f git-*.sh::
  70
  71         Remove all git-*.sh scripts that are in the index. The files
  72         are removed from the index, and (because of the -f option),
  73         from the working tree as well. Because this example lets the
  74         shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files
  75         explicitly), it does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
  76
  77 See Also
  78 --------
  79 gitlink:git-add[1]
  80
  81 Author
  82 ------
  83 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  84
  85 Documentation
  86 --------------
  87 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  88
  89 GIT
  90 ---
  91 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  92