How can I list all the deleted files in a Git repository?
GitGit Problem Overview
I know Git stores information of when files get deleted and I am able to check individual commits to see which files have been removed, but is there a command that would generate a list of every deleted file across a repository's lifespan?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
git log --diff-filter=D --summary
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/953481/restore-a-deleted-file-in-a-git-repo
If you don't want all the information about which commit they were removed in, you can just add a grep delete in there.
git log --diff-filter=D --summary | grep delete
Solution 2 - Git
This does what you want, I think:
git log --all --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=D | sort -u
... which I've just taken more-or-less directly from this other answer.
Solution 3 - Git
If you're only interested in seeing the currently deleted files, you can use this:
git ls-files --deleted
if you then want to remove them (in case you deleted them not using "git rm") pipe that result to xargs git rm
git ls-files --deleted | xargs git rm
Solution 4 - Git
Citing this Stack Overflow answer.
It is a pretty neat way to get type-of-change (A:Added, M:Modified, D:Deleted) for each file that got changed.
git diff --name-status HEAD~1000
Solution 5 - Git
And if you want to somehow constrain the results here's a nice one:
$ git log --diff-filter=D --summary | sed -n '/^commit/h;/\/some_dir\//{G;s/\ncommit \(.*\)/ \1/gp}'
delete mode 100644 blah/some_dir/file1 d3bfbbeba5b5c1da73c432cb3fb61990bdcf6f64
delete mode 100644 blah/some_dir/file2 d3bfbbeba5b5c1da73c432cb3fb61990bdcf6f64
delete mode 100644 blah/some_dir/file3 9c89b91d8df7c95c6043184154c476623414fcb7
You'll get all files deleted from some_dir (see the sed command) together with the commit number in which it happen. Any sed regex will do (I use this to find deleted file types, etc)
Solution 6 - Git
Since Windows doesn't have a grep command, this worked for me in PowerShell:
git log --find-renames --diff-filter=D --summary | Select-String -Pattern "delete mode" | sort -u > deletions.txt
Solution 7 - Git
Show all deleted files in some_branch
git diff origin/master...origin/some_branch --name-status | grep ^D
or
git diff origin/master...origin/some_branch --name-status --diff-filter=D
Solution 8 - Git
This will get you a list of all files that were deleted in all branches, sorted by their path:
git log --diff-filter=D --summary | grep "delete mode 100" | cut -c 21- | sort > deleted.txt
Works in msysgit (2.6.1.windows.1). Note we need "delete mode 100" as git files may have been commited as mode 100644 or 100755.
Solution 9 - Git
If you want the names purely separated by a newline character, you can use the --name-only flag like this:
git diff --diff-filter=D --name-only <old-commit-hash> <new-commit-hash>