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.
Update (9 years later, lol):
This looks like it has been fixed in git 2.x:
$ git --version
git version 2.25.1
$ mkdir repo
$ cd repo
$ git init .
Initialized empty Git repository in repo/.git/
$ touch foo bar baz
$ git add foo bar baz
$ git commit -m "initial commit"
[master (root-commit) 79c736b] initial commit
3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 bar
create mode 100644 baz
create mode 100644 foo
$ rm foo
$ git status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
deleted: foo
$ git add foo
$ git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
deleted: foo
git add foo now works. See Update.
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
Even though it's correct to use git rm [FILE], alternatively, you could do git add -u.
According to the git-add documentation:
-u --update Update the index just where it already has an entry matching [FILE]. This removes as well as modifies index entries to match the working tree, but adds no new files. If no [FILE] is given when -u option is used, all tracked files in the entire working tree are updated (old versions of Git used to limit the update to the current directory and its subdirectories).
Upon which the index will be refreshed and files will be properly staged.
git add -A . will add all changes, I specifically wanted to stage one deleted file.
git add -u FolderWithDeletedFiles/ and it did what I want, thanks
To stage all manually deleted files you can use:
git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)
To add an alias to this command as git rm-deleted, run:
git config --global alias.rm-deleted '!git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)'
unknown option `deleted)
for /F %I in ('git ls-files --deleted') do git add -u %I
git rm with git add since I the files are already deleted and I am only updating the index.
Since Git 2.0.0, git add will also stage file deletions.
< pathspec >… Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. *.c) can be given to add all matching files. Also a leading directory name (e.g. dir to add dir/file1 and dir/file2) can be given to update the index to match the current state of the directory as a whole (e.g. specifying dir will record not just a file dir/file1 modified in the working tree, a file dir/file2 added to the working tree, but also a file dir/file3 removed from the working tree. Note that older versions of Git used to ignore removed files; use --no-all option if you want to add modified or new files but ignore removed ones.
git add foo/*/deleted.file won't work, because the * only expands to files that still exist. You can use other patterns that don't rely on files existing, though, such as git add foo/{bar,baz,quux}/deleted.file
foo/*/deleted.file, you can also stage them for deletion by putting single quotes around the path, including the wildcard. That prevents the operating system from trying to expand the wildcard, and instead git expands it and stages the deleted files: git add 'foo/*/deleted.file'.
to Add all ready deleted files
git status -s | grep -E '^ D' | cut -d ' ' -f3 | xargs git add --all
thank check to make sure
git status
you should be good to go
rm <file>, but rather git rm <file>
git version 2.15.2 (Apple Git-101.1).
You can use this command
git add `git ls-files --deleted`
Explanation:
git ls-files --deleted - This command will return the filenames of all deleted files.
You can use
git rm -r --cached -- "path/to/directory"
to stage a deleted directory.
Ian Mackinnon found the answer, but it's better with xargs:
git ls-files --deleted -z | xargs -r0 git rm
As a git alias:
git config --global alias.rm-deleted '!git ls-files --deleted -z | xargs -r0 git rm'
This uses xargs with NUL termination (the only byte guarranteed not to appear in a path) and the option to not run git rm if the file list is empty.
This syntax is also fish compatible.
If you want to simply add all the deleted files to stage then you can use git add .
This is the easiest way right now with git v2.27.0. Note that using * and . are different approaches. Using git add * would only add currently present files whereas git add . would also stage the files deleted with rm command.
It's obvious but worth mentioning that other files which have been modified would also be added to the staging area when you use git add ..
for those using git 2.x+ in powershell:
foreach ($filePath in (git ls-files --deleted)) { git add "$filePath" }
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