Re: automatically removing missing files beneath a directory

["Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us>]

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On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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 <directory> 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

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From 698a0b7341647a0ce9e7abb36fe9357400e6bb59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us>
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.
 
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