Git: need to recursively 'git rm' the contents of all bin and obj folders

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

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 2

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 3

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