How to remove a directory from git repository?
I have 2 directories on my GitHub repository. I'd like to delete one of them. How could I do that without deleting and re-creating entire repository?
Remove directory from git and local
You could checkout 'master' with both directories;
git rm -r one-of-the-directories
git commit -m "Remove duplicated directory"
git push origin <your-git-branch> (typically 'master', but not always)
Remove directory from git but NOT local
As mentioned in the comments, what you usually want to do is remove this directory from git but not delete it entirely from the filesystem (local)
In that case use:
git rm -r --cached myFolder
To remove folder/directory only from git repository and not from the local try 3 simple commands.
Steps to remove directory
git rm -r --cached FolderName
git commit -m "Removed folder from repository"
git push origin master
Steps to ignore that folder in next commits
To ignore that folder from next commits make one file in root named .gitignore and put that folders name into it. You can put as many as you want
.gitignore file will be look like this
/FolderName
If, for some reason, what karmakaze said doesn't work, you could try deleting the directory you want to delete (through your file system browser), issuing the command
git add -A
and then
git commit -m 'deleting directory'
and then
git push origin master .
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