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Chloë Lecomte
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Asked: 2022-04-17T19:15:07+00:00 In:

How To Delete Folder In Gitlab Repository?

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Excuse me, how to delete folder in Gitlab repository? this is new to me so i haven’t figured out how to do it yet. If anyone knows please point me out.

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Ideas for “How To Delete Folder In Gitlab Repository”: To delete a folder within your git repository, follow these steps:

  1.  Go to the directory where the file you wish to remove then type the following command: rm -rf <Directory Name>
  2. Commit the changes after deleting the folder
  3. Finally push the changes on the remote directory

This is details of the command line to delete folder in Gitlab repository:

git rm -r --cached <folder>
git commit -m "Deleted Folder"
git push origin master

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  1. Best Answer

    This is the solution that I found somewhere, it helped me resolve the problem. I hope that help you

    git rm -r --cached <folder>
git commit -m "Removed Folder"
git push origin master
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  2. Hope my suggestion can improve your trouble

    Option 1

    git rm -r one-of-the-directories
git commit . -m "Remove duplicated directory"
git push

    Option 2

    git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf path/to/your/file' HEAD
git push

    Using the second option if the first command can not delete the files

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  3. @tptutoria that works, I tried to copy your command and it returns the correct value

    I just leave here the relevant knowledge that ittutoria.net help us to get the cause. I just

    • git init
    • git config user.name “someone”
    • git config user.email “[email protected]”
    • git rm -r
    • git commit -m “deleting dir”
    • git push the beginning master
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