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Git rm pending files

If you’ve deleted a bunch of files in your directory, here’s a handy bash alias to git rm the changes into your index.


alias gitrm="git stat | grep deleted | awk '{print $3}' | xargs git rm"


Update: turns out git add -u takes care of deleted files.

That looks handy. Nice tip!

Since awk also does what grep does, you can make that a little shorter:

alias gitrm=”git stat | awk ‘/deleted/ {print $3}’ | xargs git rm”

Thanks! As it turns out all of this is totally unnecessary as git already takes care of it. Pardon my ignorance! Here’s the git command to take care of staging deleted files as well as changed files:

git add -u