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Author：JIYIK Last Updated：2025/03/29 Views：

This article will explain how to delete a directory or folder in Git.

In a typical development environment, we have many directories or folders to group different files.

Sometimes we may need to delete some irrelevant directories.

We will now illustrate this with an example.

`git rm`To delete a directory in Git, use

Suppose we have a particular directory that we no longer want to keep in our Git repository.

We can delete a directory or folder from the repository using the command with the -d -roption .git rm

The syntax of the command is git rm -r <directory_name>.

It will recursively remove directories and their contents from the repository.

Suppose we have a miscdirectory called and we want to remove it from our repository.

$ ls misc
tmp1.txt

We can delete the directory miscand its contents as shown below.

$ git rm -r misc
rm 'misc/tmp1.txt'

So, we have now deleted the directory from the Git repository misc.

We now need to commit and push the deleted directory to the remote repository.

We will now do the following.

$ git commit -m "removed misc directory"
[main b89f021] removed misc directory
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 misc/tmp1.txt
 
$ git push origin main

So now when other team members pull changes from the remote repository, the directory miscwill be deleted.

Sometimes, we may want to keep a directory in the local file system but remove it from tracking in the remote repository.

To do this, we can use --cachedthe -p option and git rm-p command as shown below.

$ git rm -r --cached misc

Note that this will still remove the directory from the filesystem of other team members' machines when they pull changes from the remote repository misc.

It only misckeeps the directory in the file system of the local machine where we execute the above command.

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