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Created November 11, 2013 09:47
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Removing ignored file from the repository
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Remove gitignore'd file
$git rm -r --cached some-directory
$git commit -m 'Remove the now ignored directory "some-directory"'
$git push origin master
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gianpaj commented Mar 14, 2016

The above works fine for a single directory or file. But when you have committed a lot of files this could become handier:

git rm --cached `git ls-files -i --exclude-from=.gitignore`

Run this command to see first which files will be removed from repository (untracked):

git ls-files -i --exclude-from=.gitignore

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