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How to rename or remove file name with weird quotes and slashes in linux
When I run git status I get:
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
"\231"
"\231\217\373\275\235Y"
So I ...
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How to avoid a directory from being removed [closed]
I wanted to know if there is a way to create a file inside a directory that avoids it to be removed by a simple rm -r, just like when we have a Git respository and it is not deleted because of the ....
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what happened if i rm a file without unstaging it?
lately, I've been learning git, then I came to the git rm that kind of confused me, I kept digging in and understood most of it, but there is a question still baffling me, what will happen if I ...
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Recover deleted files from local git repo?
I accidentally rm'd some files in a git repo. Those files had been changed a lot and hadn't been git add'd yet.
Is there a way to restore the files to their 'last saved' state?
UPDATE
Just wanted to ...
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Cannot remove .git/: Directory not empty
I have a .git/ folder that I'd like to delete. However, it isn't possible because there is a puzzling file into it which is not reachable.
Below is my try:
$ rm -rf .git/
rm: cannot remove '.git/': ...
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Lost previous commits and .git folder (all hashes lost) [duplicate]
TL;DR: I deleted the .git directory, recreated it with git init, then did a git commit, then did a git push using --force option and overwritten the remote repository with an empty one.
So as a total ...
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Cannot delete a sub-sub....-sub folder while trying to delete a git repository in a git repository
I wanted to delete a git repository and while doing that it gives me
Error when getting information for file “/leg/home/chaitanya/MyFolder/React/portfolio/node_modules/.cache/gh-pages/https!github.com!...
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I am trying to remove my file "styles" from my local repo using git bash. But the following error is displayed. How to remove my file?
India@Abhishek MINGW64 ~/Desktop/Vap class (webcss)
$ mkdir styles
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘styles’: File exists
and yet:
India@Abhishek MINGW64 ~/Desktop/Vap class (webcss)
$ git rm -r --...
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how can git commit -a work after i remove a file from index
Suppose I have tracked file empty.txt.
Now I remove file from working directory using rm empty.txt .
Now I am removing file from index using git rm empty.txt and now file should be untracked since I ...
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Removing an already commited and pushed file from git without deleting it [duplicate]
I have a some files which I want to remove from git, but I don't want the files to be deleted, either locally or on other developers machines.
(These are files which should never have been in the repo,...
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Cannot remove .git: Directory not empty
Unable to remove .git
I have a git repository, Rift, that I am trying to remove. On attempting to run rm -rf, I get the error: rm: cannot remove 'Rift/.git/objects/pack': Directory not empty.
When I ...
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What happens if I delete a file on a git branch using sudo rm -r from the file system locally
I deleted a file using sudo rm -r when on a dev branch locally . Now I can still view the file on other branches but I don't quite understand it fully. Also I think I have lost the file on the master ...
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I can't remove git folder with rm -rf .git on Windows
I want to init git on the main folder mern but not on the frontend folder, but if I try to remove git folder from frontend I still see the (master) text, here's what I'm trying:
Jim@DESKTOP-NC66H5I ...
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How to revert a git rm -r .?
I added my files to local respository, committed the add then removed the files.
I wasn't logged into gitlab at the time. how can I revert it?
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How to make rm not delete symbolic links?
So, I was getting rid of the unwanted files and I deleted some folder. After some time I saw another folder which appears red in ls -la. I knew I deleted the actual folder and thus I was very sad and ...
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How to git rm a file containing *
As an accident of typing, I've ended up with a file in the repo ending with the * character. I'm using Bash.
Let's call the file "bin/abc*". Also there are files bin/xyz and others beginning with bin/...
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How to undo " git rm -r . -f " command which deleted my all files? [duplicate]
Unknowingly I deleted my all important files. Firstly, I initialized my directory using git init then I added the files using git add . after that to unstage my files I run this command "git rm -r . -...
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How do I remove a folder, but keep all subfodlers and files, only in one git branch?
I am setting up a git branch that needs to have a different directory structure to the rest of them. The files are all the same, however, they must essentially all be moved a level up. There are a lot ...
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How to use previous commit state in git and not present on same file?
I modified some project files(profilePage.js and profile.js) and then added them to commit, but I didn't push as I had a backup to delete. Then I accidentally deleted profile.js through powershell ...
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Git delete some files in working tree after rm --cached and moving between branchs
When I follow these steps, file in working tree is deleted while that should not happen :
From a new local repo
git init
I create some files
touch file1.txt | touch file2.txt
I want to ignore ...
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When I use 'rm -rf .git ' then 'git init', the source files are disappear?
Here are the operations on mac:(the 9977 ,I found the source files are disappear) :
9923 git log
9924 git remote
9925 git remote -v
9926 git remote set-url --add origin ssh://xxx.git
9927 ...
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Git - rm: unrecognized option `--cached'
I added dist to my .gitignore but it was added to the tree in some other way.
I'm trying to remove it and clean up the tree using:
rm dist --cached
But am getting the error:
rm: unrecognized option ...
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Remove folder from git but fatal outside repository error while already pushed
I am using AWS Cloud9
I was fiddling around installing/updating nvm in my git repo and then afterwards I git pushed everything to my Github repo. However, it also pushed the nvm library onto there (...
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removing deleted folders with git
I am running
git status
And I have a massive laundry list of deleted files that I need to remove with
git rm
the problem is I need to delete them all in one command, and the list is too long to ...
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git rm -r removed "ignored" files. how can I get them back using git?
Edit: I was able to recover my files from the trash, so I don't need a solution, but I'm interested in knowing how to recover using git (since it created the problem) and why any git operation would ...
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How to undo the deletion of my .git/ folder?
Earlier today I was having trouble pushing changes to my GitHub. I stagged several commits but kept getting the message "nothing to commit. branch is up to date". Long story short, I used the rm -rf ...
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How to know the system account user that will execute the hooks of a GIT repository?
Let's say we have this Git repository with path /home/derp/projects/example.git. This repository has a post-receive hook /home/derp/projects/example.git/hooks/post-receive which allows derp (git owner)...
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Having trouble removing large files from my git history
I’m using Git 2.6.2 on Mac Sierra. I want to remove a couple of large files from my git history (I don’t want a record of these files in Git because they are so large). So I tried runniing …
git ...
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How to undo git rm . -r --cached command without losing any uncommitted changes?
I've accidentally executed a git rm . -r --cached command which makes all files have deleted status. I have some uncommitted changes which I do not want to lose. How can I undo the effects of git rm . ...
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How to undo several Git commands? [duplicate]
Any chance to undo any of the following lines:
git rm cvs
git rm cvs -r
git reset HEAD --.
git reset --hard HEAD
git reset --hard
git clean -df
git status
git rm --cached .
git rm --cached
git rm --...
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How to git rm files that are on remote origin but not in local?
I have some .swp files that were created by my editor and committed previously by accident. Now I want to merge into master, but need to get rid of these files. I tried to delete them from my ...
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Will git rm -f <file> remove the file from another branch
I work in many branches and have pulled a file from one branch (branchA) to the current one (branchB).
I used git checkout file.name
I would like to remove file.name from branchB without modifying ...
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Remove file called --a from git
I accidentially created and committed a file called --a in my git repository. Using git rm --a obviously did not work. How can I remove this file?
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Restore deleted file not staged in git
I accidentally removed the entire directory of my source code...with a nice rm -r. I know, really bad; but fortunately, I had a git repo in the containing directory. Thus, git has a huge list of ...
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Delete file on git repository [duplicate]
I uploaded a file(a huge fool file) accidentally to my git repository, when I noticed it I "removed" using git rm the_fool_file
Then I saw that the file is still at the repository althought it was ...
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Trouble removing oddly named files from github repo
I have recently acquired a couple corrupted files in my github repository. I have deleted them from my host but I'm having trouble removing them with git because they have messed up names. They show ...
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In Linux - how do I delete a file with an 'erroneous' name?
I have a file that keeps popping up in my git status log. It looks like it was created by accident, but when trying to use "rm name_of_file" I get the following error:
rm: cannot remove `...
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Removing files from index and gitignore
This is a combination of a number of questions I've seen on stackoverlow, essentially I have a number of files I wish to be on my .gitignore list, so I've added those files manually.
The problem is ...
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How to remove quoted deleted files in git repository
when I use git status, it shows:
# Changes not staged for commit:
# (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
# (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes ...
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undelete file from ming
I'm writting a php app on a windows 7 machine and I'm using git command line utility from mingw32. The problem is that I just remived a very important file of my project by mistake.
This is the ...
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how to commit the files that i delete using rm rather than git rm?
git add seems not works for these deleted files, so how to commit the changes?
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
# (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what ...
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Mac OS X restore files deleted by git rm
i just messed up big. The way it happened is so emberassing that I won't write it down :)
So here's my problem:
Github Repop deleted
Local repo files delete by git rm -r
Local repo new initalized
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Why use git rm instead of rm'ing files, directories, etc. and then using git add -u?
I'm having trouble getting git rm to delete a now superfluous directory and it's files from a project. This made me wonder why git rm is the accepted practice when deleting tracked files instead of rm ...
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How do I remove an empty folder and push that change?
How can I remove an empty folder locally and also have that happen for other collaborators that share the remote via pull-push? I know that folders aren't 'tracked' in that sense by git but the ...
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Does git rm remove all history of a file?
My project has a file foo that I've been using and checking in with git. I just did some refactoring so that I no longer need the file at all. If I do git rm foo, will the file still exist in older ...
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How to undo git rm -rf dirname without a first commit?
I did:
git init
git add .
git rm -rf dirname
Looking at other answsers, git reset --hard HEAD, git checkout -f and git reflog did not work, apparently because there is no HEAD to go back to, nor a ...
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Why does `rm -rf` behave differently when used in a git post-receive hook as opposed to shell?
I'm using this example on publishing a website w/ git post receive hooks.
The hook pretty much clones the bare repo into a temporary directory, and after generating the site, removes that temporary ...
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Unable to remove files recursively from Git
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 ...
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Unable to recover a file in Git [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Restore a deleted file in a Git repo
I have two branches in my Git, master and newFeature.
At the branch newFeature, I removed the fileA physically first in terminal and then ...
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