Remove file from the repository but keep it locally

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Rodrigo Souza picture Rodrigo Souza · Aug 12, 2010 · Viewed 94.4k times · Source

I have a folder which I'd like to remove in my remote repository. I'd like to delete it, but keep the folder in my computer

Answer

jamessan picture jamessan · Aug 12, 2010 
git rm --cached -r somedir

Will stage the deletion of the directory, but doesn't touch anything on disk. This works also for a file, like: 

git rm --cached somefile.ext

Afterwards you may want to add somedir/ or somefile.ext to your .gitignore file so that git doesn't try to add it back.

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