Git: need to recursively 'git rm' the contents of all bin and obj folders

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Jacko picture Jacko · May 3, 2011 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

Someone by accident just commited all of their bin and obj folders to our repo (there are around 40 such folders). I would like to do a git rm -r on all of these folders. Is there a command to do this?

Answer

sehe picture sehe · May 3, 2011

Have backups,

 find . -type d -name bin -exec git rm -r {} \;

 find . -type d -name obj -exec git rm -r {} \;

Update

With bash, you can set the shopt globstar, and be happy:

 shopt -s globstar
 git rm -r **/{obj,bin}/

Finally, if you need to remove these from the history of the repository, look at git filter-branch and read the section on 'Removing Objects' from the Pro Git Book

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