Managing Files - Git Recipes - page 127

$ git commit -a -m "Staging and committing
removed file"
5. 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 removed.txt file.
How It Works
You can use standard commands such as $ rm to remove files in the working direct-
ory. If you want to stage all removed files you can use the -a flag of git commit $
git commit -am "..." or one of the following commands:
$ git add -u
$ git add -A
You also can stage only selected files removed with the $ rm command; to achieve
the use of the $ git rm [filename] command.
To summarize, the following two procedures will have the same effect for file-
name.txt :
# first procedure
$ rm filename.txt
$ git commit -am "..."
# second procedure
$ rm filename.txt
$ git rm filename.txt
$ git commit -m "..."
They differ in one aspect: the first procedure will commit all tracked files (staged
and unstaged); the second will commit only staged files.
Both procedures are shown in Figure 4-5 .