- Removing Files 4:14
- Removing Files 3 objectives
- Moving Files 2:14
- Moving Files 3 objectives
- Unstaging Changes 1:51
- Unstaging Files 2 objectives
- Discarding File Modifications 2:59
- Discarding File Changes 2 objectives
- Undoing File Deletions 1:18
- Recovering Deleted Files 3 objectives
- Commit SHAs and Undoing Commits 5:06
- Undoing Commits 2 objectives
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Removing Files
4:14Removing a file from your working directory is not the same as removing it from your Git repo. In this video, we'll learn about the "git rm" command.
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Previously, we've shown you how to set up
a Git repository and commit files to it.
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But with just the commands you know now,
when you commit a file,
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well you're committed.
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If you decide you need to delete or
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move a file,
you can do it in your working directory.
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But you can't do it in the Git repo.
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If you staged the wrong file,
we haven't shown you how to unstage it.
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In these next few videos,
we'll fix all that and more.
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We'll show you how to delete or
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move files in the get repo as
well as your working directory.
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You'll learn how to unstage files
that you've accidentally staged.
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We'll help you reset a file's
contents back to the way they looked
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after your last commit.
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We'll show you how to bring back a file
that you've accidentally deleted.
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And if you decide you don't like
the changes you made in the commit,
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we'll show you how to undo that commit.
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This is the good stuff.
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In these lessons you'll begin
to see the real power of Git.
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Ready?
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Let's get started.
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We've added the tin.html file
showcasing the store's new tin medals.
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If we run git status,
we'll see the file is untracked.
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So let's add it.
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Git add tin.html, and
then we'll commit it,
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git commit -m "Add tin medals".
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And we close our editor,
satisfied with a job well done.
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But suppose we later learn that the
customers weren't too pleased with the new
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tin medals, and
we've decided to drop the product.
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If we run the ls command,
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it will show the tin.html file
here in our project directory.
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We can delete the file from our terminal
using the rm command, which stands for
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remove, rm tin.html.
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Just like ls,
the rm command isn't part of Git, but
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it is standard on all Unix-like systems,
so it's worth learning how to use.
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See the teacher's notes
if you want more info.
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Running ls again will show that
the tin.html file is gone.
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But the tin.html file is
being tracked by Git.
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Will deleting the file
from our working directory
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also delete it from the repository?
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Let's try our trusty git
status command to find out.
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It shows that the tin.html
file has been deleted, but
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it shows that in the changes
not staged for commit section.
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Why is that?
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In Git, commits don't just add or modify
files, they can delete them as well.
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This is important because repositories
can be shared across multiple computers.
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When you decide to remove a file from your
project, you don't want that file to be
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left sitting in your coworker's
copy of the project.
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You want it to be deleted from
your coworker's machine, too.
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Making file deletions part of a commit
ensures that the copies of your Git
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repository will have those
deletions applied, too.
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And by the way, in case you're worried
about others using this feature to delete
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files from your machine, there are ways
to undo the deletion of a file,
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even after you've committed the deletion.
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We'll see one way in an upcoming video.
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So how can we make the deletion
of tin.html part of a commit?
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The key is to use the git rm command.
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Git rm is set up to work much
like the plain rm command.
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So it's much like taking
our previous command and
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sticking the word git in front of it,
git rm tin.html.
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Let's run git status again.
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And we'll see the deletion of tin.html
is listed in the changes to be
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committed section now.
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Next, we can commit as usual,
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git commit -m, "Remove tin medals".
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Now we can run git status again, and
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this time it will show that
the working directory is clean.
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And if we run ls, we'll see that
the tin.html file is still gone.
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By the way, we didn't need to run
rm tin.html as a separate step.
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Git rm will remove the file from the
working directory for you, if it exists.
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