git - How to delete unwanted commit files

Question

I am new to git functions and I wrote a set of code, I intend to push it to Github but my commit report is showing over 5000 files, I do not know where such heavy set of commits emanated from. Please help!

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question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65917831/how-to-delete-unwanted-commit-files

Answer 1

You have a lot of files in folders you do not want to be pushing. The .cache folder for example. You can fix this by creating a .gitignore file containing the paths that you don't want to push.

For example, to add the .cache folder to .gitignore, you can use.

.cache

Figure out which files you want to push to github, and which you should not be pushing. Also, if you have already pushed any files to the repo that are included in the .gitignore, you will need to remove them.