How can I list all the deleted files in a Git repository?

I know Git stores information of when files get deleted and I am able to check individual commits to see which files have been removed, but is there a command that would generate a list of every deleted file across a repository's lifespan?

Solution 1:

git log --diff-filter=D --summary

See Find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository

If you don't want all the information about which commit they were removed in, you can just add a grep delete in there.

git log --diff-filter=D --summary | grep delete

Solution 2:

This does what you want, I think:

git log --all --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=D | sort -u

... which I've just taken more-or-less directly from this other answer.

Solution 3:

If you're only interested in seeing the currently deleted files, you can use this:

git ls-files --deleted

if you then want to remove them (in case you deleted them not using "git rm") pipe that result to xargs git rm

git ls-files --deleted | xargs git rm

Solution 4:

Citing this Stack Overflow answer.

It is a pretty neat way to get type-of-change (A:Added, M:Modified, D:Deleted) for each file that got changed.

git diff --name-status HEAD~1000