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