Answers for "remove gitignored files from repo"

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remove files inside .gitignore files

# First solution
$ git rm -r --cached . # We remove
$ git add . # We stage
$ git commit -m "Clean up ignored files" # We commit



# Second solution : if you have a lot of files
# It's basicaly the first solution in one line
git rm --cached `git ls-files -i -c --exclude-from=.gitignore`

# If you are on Windows and the line above didn't work, try this one in Powershell
git ls-files -i -c --exclude-from=.gitignore | %{git rm --cached $_}
Posted by: Guest on February-20-2022
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git remove all files from gitignore

git ls-files -i --exclude-from=.gitignore | %{git rm --cached $_}

// works with windows powershell
Posted by: Guest on April-15-2021

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