Staging Deleted files

git git-add git-rm git-stage
Andrew Tomazos picture Andrew Tomazos · Sep 11, 2012 · Viewed 270.4k times · Source

Say I have a file in my git repository called foo.

Suppose it has been deleted with rm (not git rm). Then git status will show:

Changes not staged for commit:

    deleted: foo

How do I stage this individual file deletion?

If I try:

git add foo

It says:

'foo' did not match any files.

Answer

Wooble picture Wooble · Sep 11, 2012

Use git rm foo to stage the file for deletion. (This will also delete the file from the file system, if it hadn't been previously deleted. It can, of course, be restored from git, since it was previously checked in.)

To stage the file for deletion without deleting it from the file system, use git rm --cached foo

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