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rahul-lohra / git-ignore.sh
Created March 31, 2018 10:09 — forked from jeffjohnson9046/git-ignore.sh
Remove unwanted files from a git repo AFTER adding a .gitignore. The files will remain on disk.
## I just ran into this after initializing a Visual Studio project _before_ adding a .gitignore file (like an idiot).
## I felt real dumb commiting a bunch of files I didn't need to, so the commands below should do the trick. The first two commands
## came from the second answer on this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7527982/applying-gitignore-to-committed-files
# See the unwanted files:
git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard
# Remove the unwanted files:
git ls-files -ci --exclude-standard -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached