version control - How to add and commit removals made with "rm" instead of "git rm"?

Question

I deleted a bunch of files and directories from a Git repository using rm, the Finder, etc.

I'm looking for a Git command that'll record these to the index as marked for removal, as if I had called git rm on them.

I understand git add -u will do this, along with a bunch of other things. I'd like my command to exclusively handle removals.

Answer 1

Without spaces in filenames:

$ git rm `git ls-files -d`

More robust:

$ git ls-files -z -d | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty git rm