How can I list all the deleted files in a Git repository?

Question

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?

Answer 1

git log --diff-filter=D --summary 

See Find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository

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 

Answer 2

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.