How to 'Git Remove' files from a deleted folder?

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I am using git remove git rm. I made the simple/stupid mistake of manually deleting a folder with all the files in it BEFORE I used git rm.

Now I have >15 files that I want to delete from my repo but NOT type out.

Is there a way to do this?

git status

deleted:    Literature/abc.md
deleted:    Literature/acdf.pdf
deleted:    Literature/dsfsdf.pdf
deleted:    Literature/dfgdfs.pdf
deleted:    Literature/sgadfgaa.md
deleted:    Literature/sdsds.pdf
deleted:    Literature/sddvasds.rmd
deleted:    Literature/ddsds.md
deleted:    Literature/fsdfsdsd.png

Romain Valeri · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-03 20:49:29Z

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Yes they're deleted from your worktree, but these files were saved in last revision*, so you just have to restore these files as they were at last commit :

git checkout -- full/path/to/Literature/

then rm them as you intended in the first place.

* (unless these are new added files but you didn't say so)

edited Apr 3, 2019 at 20:49

answered Apr 3, 2019 at 20:35

Romain Valeri

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mccurcio Over a year ago

i did a git checkout {number} but now I have a detached head.

Romain Valeri Over a year ago

@oaxacamatt That's not a problem, just checkout your branch again with git checkout <yourBranch>. But I don't get why you typed that. Was it on purpose? The -- in my code is not a placeholder for numbers, just a way to tell git "anything after that is not parameters but file pathes" Can you share what you typed exactly?

Mohamed Anees A · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-04 04:50:47Z

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If you have no other changes currently, and you are sure you need to revert back to the last committed state,

you can use , git reset --hard which moves the HEAD to last committed hash and discarding all your local changes after that commit

Or, safer way is to do a git reset {path to your deleted folder} first, to make the files unstaged for next commit, and then doing git checkout -- {path to your deleted folder} as suggested by @RomainValeri

answered Apr 4, 2019 at 4:50

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Ssquare · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-03 20:57:44Z

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You can use the command

git rm -r --cached

For more details follow the link Bit Bucket Documentation

answered Apr 3, 2019 at 20:57

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