NAME
----
-git-rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index.
+git-rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-rm' [-f] [-n] [-v] [--] <file>...
+'git-rm' [-f] [-n] [-r] [--cached] [--ignore-unmatch] [--quiet] [--] <file>...
DESCRIPTION
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-A convenience wrapper for git-update-index --remove. For those coming
-from cvs, git-rm provides an operation similar to "cvs rm" or "cvs
-remove".
+Remove files from the index, or from the working tree and the index.
+`git rm` will not remove a file from just your working directory.
+(There is no option to remove a file only from the work tree
+and yet keep it in the index; use `/bin/rm` if you want to do that.)
+The files being removed have to be identical to the tip of the branch,
+and no updates to their contents can be staged in the index,
+though that default behavior can be overridden with the `-f` option.
+When '--cached' is given, the staged content has to
+match either the tip of the branch or the file on disk,
+allowing the file to be removed from just the index.
OPTIONS
-------
<file>...::
- Files to remove from the index and optionally, from the
- working tree as well.
+ Files to remove. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can be given to
+ remove all matching files. If you want git to expand
+ file glob characters, you may need to shell-escape them.
+ A leading directory name
+ (e.g. `dir` to remove `dir/file1` and `dir/file2`) can be
+ given to remove all files in the directory, and recursively
+ all sub-directories,
+ but this requires the `-r` option to be explicitly given.
-f::
- Remove files from the working tree as well as from the index.
+ Override the up-to-date check.
--n::
- Don't actually remove the file(s), just show if they exist in
- the index.
+-n, \--dry-run::
+ Don't actually remove any file(s). Instead, just show
+ if they exist in the index and would otherwise be removed
+ by the command.
--v::
- Be verbose.
+-r::
+ Allow recursive removal when a leading directory name is
+ given.
---::
+\--::
This option can be used to separate command-line options from
the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
for command-line options).
+\--cached::
+ Use this option to unstage and remove paths only from the index.
+ Working tree files, whether modified or not, will be
+ left alone.
-DISCUSSION
-----------
+\--ignore-unmatch::
+ Exit with a zero status even if no files matched.
-The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
-command to list files that are registered in the index and
-are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
-`.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things:
+-q, \--quiet::
+ git-rm normally outputs one line (in the form of an "rm" command)
+ for each file removed. This option suppresses that output.
-. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and the
- command will remove all files in it and its subdirectories (the
- directories themselves are never removed from the working tree);
-. Giving the name of a file that is not in the index does not
- remove that file.
+DISCUSSION
+----------
+
+The <file> list given to the command can be exact pathnames,
+file glob patterns, or leading directory names. The command
+removes only the paths that are known to git. Giving the name of
+a file that you have not told git about does not remove that file.
+File globbing matches across directory boundaries. Thus, given
+two directories `d` and `d2`, there is a difference between
+using `git rm \'d\*\'` and `git rm \'d/\*\'`, as the former will
+also remove all of directory `d2`.
EXAMPLES
--------
git-rm Documentation/\\*.txt::
-
Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the
- `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories. The
- files are not removed from the working tree.
+ `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
-example; this lets the command include the files from
-subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
+example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
+of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory.
git-rm -f git-*.sh::
-
- Remove all git-*.sh scripts that are in the index. The files
- are removed from the index, and (because of the -f option),
- from the working tree as well. Because this example lets the
- shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files
- explicitly), it does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
+ Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk
+ (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it
+ does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
See Also
--------
-gitlink:git-add[1]
+linkgit:git-add[1]
Author
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GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite