Say I have a file in my git repository called foo.
Suppose it has been deleted with rm (not git rm). Then git status will show:
Changes not staged for commit:
deleted: foo
How do I stage this individual file deletion?
If I try:
git add foo
It says:
'foo' did not match any files.
Update (9 years later, lol):
This looks like it has been fixed in git 2.x:
$ git --version
git version 2.25.1
$ mkdir repo
$ cd repo
$ git init .
Initialized empty Git repository in repo/.git/
$ touch foo bar baz
$ git add foo bar baz
$ git commit -m "initial commit"
[master (root-commit) 79c736b] initial commit
3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 bar
create mode 100644 baz
create mode 100644 foo
$ rm foo
$ git status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
deleted: foo
$ git add foo
$ git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
deleted: foo
Since Git 2.0.0, git add will also stage file deletions.
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Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. *.c) can be given to add all matching files. Also a leading directory name (e.g. dir to add dir/file1 and dir/file2) can be given to update the index to match the current state of the directory as a whole (e.g. specifying dir will record not just a file dir/file1 modified in the working tree, a file dir/file2 added to the working tree, but also a file dir/file3 removed from the working tree. Note that older versions of Git used to ignore removed files; use --no-all option if you want to add modified or new files but ignore removed ones.