Git delete files added by mistake

This happens occasionally for me but sometimes a file gets added into your git repository that you did not want to add like a project settings file for your IDE, etc. In my case I started using a new IDE called Fleet, it started creating files in a new .fleet directory that was not in my .gitignore So I accidentally check in some stuff for this new IDE.

Here is how you delete what was already commited, but want to leave the files on disk still locally

git rm --cached name_of_file_to_delete

You just want to delete everything

git rm name_of_file_to_delete

Once you picked the delete method commit your changes, and you’re done deleting a file from your git repository.