Remove files from remote repo only

Question

I did kind of a bad thing on my branch, and now it's a bit messed up.

I am developing a magento extension, and I accidentally commited some core files, and some folders similar to .idea to github.

What I want to do now is to remove these files from git, and keep them on my local branch. I tried the following (but didn't work):

git rm -rf --cache .idea
git add -A
git commit -m "remove unnecessary files"
git push origin blog

But it had no effect.

PS: In the meantime, I did a lot of useful commits, so reverting would be ... unpleasant :)

Thank you

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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removing the files seems to already have been answered here: Completely remove files from Git repo and remote on GitHub

to prevent those files from being uploaded again while keeping them locally push a different branch to git that doesn't contain your secret files. :)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

Community

answered Feb 15 '13 at 10:03

Gung Foo

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 15 '13 at 11:03

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Your git add -A command added back all files you unstaged. If you always checked the diff before committing you would notice this.

answered Feb 15 '13 at 11:03

wRAR

Ah yes, that was my problem it seems. It makes sense in retrospect, but I did the git add out of reflex :) – Vlad Preda Feb 15 '13 at 13:04

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