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Git adding duplicate files into the repo

I have this file called readme.html in my git Repo.

Its been there since 10 months, Have not touched it.

Today I worked with other files and did a git add --all, committed and pushed the new version.

The readme.html was not changed but I have this file called readme.4ead5bd97d0927ddb88f8f672067910a.html.

It has the same contents as readme.html.

How to deal with this and any idea why this happened ?

Solution

  • Some tool has generated it as a backup or for some other reasons.

    You can simply remove this file withe those commands:

    # remove and commit the file
rm readme.4ead5bd97d0927ddb88f8f672067910a.html
git rm --cached readme.4ead5bd97d0927ddb88f8f672067910a.html

# just verify that  the file will be deleted
git add -A .
git status

# commit the deletion of the file
git commit -m "Deleted readme.4ead5bd97d0927ddb88f8f672067910a.html"

git push origin <branch>