From: Geoffrey Irving Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 17:12:56 GMT Subject: Re: automatically removing missing files beneath a directory Message-ID: <7f9d599f0805081012ke0b342ct55a3aac1b37b158a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080508164456.GA29103@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Geoffrey Irving wrote: > >> If I have a subdirectory in a git repository, and I remove some files >> without telling git, is there is a simple way to automatically run the >> equivalent of 'git rm' for all the missing files? git commit -a would >> work, except that I only want to remove files beneath a particular >> subdirectory. git add does the equivalent operation for >> adding files, but I don't see a way to automatically remove them >> without parsing the output of git status. > > See "git add -u", which will update the status of all already-tracked > files in paths you specify. Note that this will also stage changes in > modified files. If you truly want to just mark all removed files, you > can do something like: > > git ls-files --deleted -z | xargs -0 git rm > > -Peff Cool. "git add -u && git add ." does exactly what I want. This is only indirectly mentioned in the documentation. If you think it's reasonable to mention it more explicitly, I've attached a patch. Thanks, Geoffrey From 698a0b7341647a0ce9e7abb36fe9357400e6bb59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geoffrey Irving Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 10:00:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Explicitly note in documentation that git-add -u removes files. --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 35e67a0..f7a8b03 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ OPTIONS Update only files that git already knows about. This is similar to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit, except that the update is limited to paths specified on the - command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the + command line. Files that are missing are removed (as if 'rm' had + been run). If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the current directory and its subdirectories are updated. \--refresh:: -- 1.5.4.5