Remove multiple deleted items at once from Git - Command line

Question

How do I delete multiple "deleted" files at once through the Command Line? After I add more files to git with the command:

git add .

Some files need to be removed from git like the ones that have been deleted under the caption Changes not staged for commit: after running the command git status

 deleted:    app/assets/javascripts/winter.js
 deleted:    app/views/comments/create.js.coffee
 deleted:    app/views/designs/index.json.jbuilder

And I have about 25 of those files that need to be removed. Right now, the only way I know how to is to delete each individually with:

git rm app/assets/javascripts/winter.js

How can I delete all of these with one command?? just to make my life easier.

Answer 1

For this I use:

git add -u .

From git man pages:

Only match against already tracked files in the index rather than the working tree. That means that it will never stage new files, but that it will stage modified new contents of tracked files and that it will remove files from the index if the corresponding files in the working tree have been removed.

If no is given, default to "."; in other words, update all tracked files in the current directory and its subdirectories.

This will also stage any tracked files with changes but won't add new files.