Remove a file from a Git repository without deleting it from the local filesystem
From the man file:
When
--cached
is given, the staged content has to match either the tip of the branch or the file on disk, allowing the file to be removed from just the index.
So, for a single file:
git rm --cached mylogfile.log
and for a single directory:
git rm --cached -r mydirectory
To remove an entire folder from the repo (like Resharper files), do this:
git rm -r --cached folderName
I had committed some resharper files, and did not want those to persist for other project users.
You can also remove files from the repository based on your .gitignore without deleting them from the local file system :
git rm --cached `git ls-files -i -X .gitignore`
Or, alternatively, on Windows Powershell:
git rm --cached $(git ls-files -i -X .gitignore)
As per my Answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6313126/how-to-remove-a-directory-in-my-github-repository
To remove folder/directory or file only from git repository and not from the local try 3 simple steps.
Steps to remove directory
git rm -r --cached File-or-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
A more generic solution:
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Edit
.gitignore
file.echo mylogfile.log >> .gitignore
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Remove all items from index.
git rm -r -f --cached .
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Rebuild index.
git add .
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Make new commit
git commit -m "Removed mylogfile.log"