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Created September 21, 2009 00:41
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#!/bin/bash
cat .gitignore | egrep -v "^#|^$" | while read line; do
if [ -n "$line" ]; then
OLD_IFS=$IFS; IFS=""
for ignored_file in $( git ls-files "$line" ); do
git rm --cached "$ignored_file"
done
IFS=$OLD_IFS
fi
done
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I couldn't quite get that to work in git shell (in windows), but used this one-liner instead
git ls-files --ignored --exclude-standard | sed 's/^.*$/"&"/g' | xargs git rm --cached

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