Unable to remove files recursively from Git

2018-06-15 23:27:57

I want to remove all files from Git at ~/bin/.

I run

git rm -r --cached ~/.vim/*                      # Thanks to Pate in finding --cached!

I get

fatal: pathspec '.vim/colors' did not match any files

This error messsage suggests me to use the following PATHs, since ~/.vim/** does not work

~/.vim/*        # I get the error
~/.vim/*/*/*    # This removes files from the index at ~/.vim/folderA/folderB/file1.txt
~/.vim/*/*      # similar error as to the first PATH

How can you remove all files and subdirectories at ~/.vim from Git?

 git rm -r --cached ~/.vim/*   
 fatal: pathspec '.vim/colors' did not match any files

1/ You do not need the ' * ':

 git rm -r --cached ~/.vim

will take care of any tracked sub-files.

2/ fatal: pathspec '.vim/colors' did not match any files simply means one of your commands you tried before the one listed in 1/ has worked, and there is no more file to delete!

# to test that command, first reinitialize the state of the repository
# save first if you have any other current modifications
$ git reset --hard

# then check the rm works
$ git rm -r --cached ~/.vim
rm '.vim/aPath/aFile1'
rm '.vim/aSecondPath/aFile2'
rm '.vim/aThirdPath/aFile3'

# try it again
$ git rm -r --cached ~/.vim
fatal: pathspec '.vim/colors

You want to remove them even if there are local modifications?

git rm -rf bin/*

Or do you want to remove from the index but keep the files themselves?

git rm -r --cached bin/*

Also try out:

git help rm

Or it could be that the directory you're trying to recursively remove is in the .gitignore list. I just encountered this. I have ./vendors in my ignore list, and there are a bunch of directories under ./vendors but because anything in vendors is ignored, it's not actually deleting anything like ./vendors/assetic because it's not actually in the repo. I forgot that it was in the ignore list :)

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