Git: need to recursively 'git rm' the cont

Question

Someone by accident just commited all of their bin and obj folders to our repo (there are around 40 such folders). I would like to do a git rm -r on all of these folders. Is there a command to do this?

Answer 1

Once you revert (will keep files in history) or reset the commit,

git reset --hard

Once these are ignored files,

git clean -xdf

I use that to clean up before rebuilding a solution. Seems vs uses some dlls even after a checkout of a different branch or a merge.

You shouldn't need to resort to filter branch. Interactive rebase will do. Remember the --preserve-merges flag.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Have backups,

 find . -type d -name bin -exec git rm -r {} \;

 find . -type d -name obj -exec git rm -r {} \;

Update

With bash, you can set the shopt globstar, and be happy:

 shopt -s globstar
 git rm -r **/{obj,bin}/

Finally, if you need to remove these from the history of the repository, look at git filter-branch and read the section on 'Removing Objects' from the Pro Git Book

Answer 3

Another option is to revert the offending commit with git revert.