git-rm

Files to remove. Fileglobs (e.g. *.c) can be given to remove all matching files. Also a leading directory name (e.g. dir to add dir/file1 and dir/file2) can be given to remove all files in the directory, recursively, but this requires -r option to be given for safety.

Override the up-to-date check.

Don't actually remove the file(s), just show if they exist in the index.

Allow recursive removal when a leading directory name is given.

This option can be used to separate command-line options from the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken for command-line options).

This option can be used to tell the command to remove the paths only from the index, leaving working tree files.

Exit with a zero status even if no files matched.

git-rm normally outputs one line (in the form of an "rm" command) for each file removed. This option suppresses that output.

Removes all *.txt files from the index that are under the Documentation directory and any of its subdirectories. Note that the asterisk * is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets the command include the files from subdirectories of Documentation/ directory.

Remove all git-*.sh scripts that are in the index. Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not remove subdir/git-foo.sh.