Managing Files - Git Recipes - page 124

lists one file deleted.txt under Changes to be committed . This
means that the operation of removing the file was staged .
4. Check the simplified form of status. The output of $ git status -s
will be:
D_ deleted.txt
This time the staged file removal is denoted by two characters: a letter
D and a space.
5. Commit the changes with the $ git commit -m "Staging and
committing removed file" command.
6. Check the status with the $ git status -s command. The output is
empty, therefore the repository is clean. The working directory doesn't
contain the deleted.txt file.
How It Works
We start the recipe with a clean repository containing the file deleted.txt . The
command $ git rm deleted.txt removes the file from the working directory
and stages this operation. Staged and deleted files are denoted by D_ by the $ git
status -s command. After another $ git commit command the operation is
committed: the snapshot stored in a revision doesn't contain the file deleted.txt .
The flow of Recipe 4-4 is shown in Figure 4-4 .
Figure 4-4 . The flow of Recipe 4-4