Remove entire folder and its content from git

[anaisamp]

Hi there,
I'm using libgit2sharp and I need to do this command: git rm -r folderPath
in order to remove a given folder and all its content recursively.
Can you guy tell me how can I do that?
Thanks.

[nulltoken]

Hey @anaisamp.

git rm features should be served by the repo.Index.Remove() method.
Unfortunately, this doesn't accept a path to directory. Yet. This feature should be added soon, though. I'll keep this issue opened and will update it as soon as it is available.

Meanwhile, you should be able to workaround this limit with something like the following. Warning: this is some highly untested piece of code 😉

string relativeDirectoryPath = "path/to/dir/";
string absolutePath = Path.Combine(repo.Info.WorkingDirectory, relativeDirectoryPath);

Directory.Delete(absolutePath, true);

var status = repo.Index.RetrieveStatus();

var ents = status.Where(e => e.FilePath.StartsWith(relativeDirectoryPath));

foreach (var statusEntry in ents)
{
    repo.Index.Remove(statusEntry.FilePath);
}

[XaeroDegreaz]

Maybe we need an optional parameter bool deleteFromDisk = false, and then just go ahead and implement the deleting portions in the Index.cs?

[nulltoken]

Maybe we need an optional parameter bool deleteFromDisk = false, and then just go ahead and implement the deleting portions in the Index.cs?

@XaeroDegreaz Spot on! see #270 😄

[XaeroDegreaz]

Lol wow, it's totally the same thing =)

[anaisamp]

Hi,
I just followed your code and its working fine! Could be untested but the truth is it really worked!
Thank you a lot :)

[nulltoken]

@anaisamp Glad it worked for you!

[anaisamp]

Hi there again,

May I use this way you told me to delete the entire repository and its content?
Thank you.

[anaisamp]

I've tried but it doesn't work. The content of the repository is deleted (although an error occurred when I made commit) but the repository folder itself is not. There is another way to remove the repository folder?

[nulltoken]

Hey @anaisamp,

I'm not sure I understood what you're willing to achieve. Are you willing to drop the .git directory (i.e. the whole repository) or remove the content of the working directory? Is there a specific git command line syntax you'd like to see emulated?

[anaisamp]

Hi @nulltoken,

I want to drop the whole repository, in other words, reproduce rm -rf .git command. How can I achieve that?

[nulltoken]

rm -rf is not a git command. It's a unix shell command. The closest in the .Net world would be Directory.Delete(path, true), but this still would choke on readonly attributes (FWIW, the test helper method works around this issue)

[anaisamp]

That's right, thank you very much! Well, I used the helper method you suggested (traditional Directory.Delete(path, true) wasn't working for me). So now my repository was removed, but I still have to drop my original repository which is on bitbucket. I am wondering if I can use LibGit2Sharp to do that...

[dahlbyk]

...I still have to drop my original repository which is on bitbucket. I am wondering if I can use LibGit2Sharp to do that...

That's well out of scope for LibGit2Sharp. Bitbucket's API might be able to help.

[anaisamp]

Ok, that's rigth. Thank you very much for your assistance, it was very helpful and I really appreciate! :)