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?
Have backups,
find . -type d -name bin -exec git rm -r {} \;
find . -type d -name obj -exec git rm -r {} \;
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