rm

vb rm|delete|forget FILE1 [FILE2 ...]

Description

Remove one or more files or directories from the repository.

The rm and delete commands do NOT normally remove the files from disk. They just mark the files as no longer being part of the project. In other words, future changes to the named files will not be versioned. However, the default behavior of this command may be overridden via the command line options listed below and/or the mv-rm-files setting.

The forget command never removes files from disk, even when the command line options and/or the mv-rm-files setting would otherwise require it to do so.

WARNING: If the --hard option is specified -OR- the mv-rm-files setting is non-zero, files WILL BE removed from disk as well. This does NOT apply to the forget command.

Options

--soft

Skip removing files from the check-out. This supersedes the --hard option.

--hard

Remove files from the check-out

--case-sensitive BOOL

Override the case-sensitive setting

-n, --dry-run

If given, display instead of run actions.

--reset

Reset the DELETED state of a check-out, such that all newly-rm’d (but not yet committed) files are no longer removed. No flags other than --verbose or --dry-run may be used with --reset.

-v, --verbose

Outputs information about each --reset file. Only usable with --reset.

Examples

• Init and open a repository

$ vb init rm_repo.vbyte
project-id: 1c9ec5740e283ddd12a48340d34037401200f655
server-id:  9163c0fe654fe25efe4dffec20a91bb223658d2a
admin-user: ubuntu (initial remote-access password is "p9veg8PfyX")
$ vb open -f rm_repo.vbyte
project-name: <unnamed>
repository:   /tmp/sphinx_tests/89083c99/rm_repo/rm_repo.vbyte
local-root:   /tmp/sphinx_tests/89083c99/rm_repo/
config-db:    /tmp/sphinx_tests/89083c99/.visionbyte
project-code: 1c9ec5740e283ddd12a48340d34037401200f655
checkout:     11a4fd0547dbf6325c7fc7a23e2a76eda70b3f26 2026-04-07 06:51:36 UTC
tags:         trunk
comment:      initial empty check-in (user: ubuntu)
check-ins:    1

• Add and commit a file

$ vb system echo "config" > config.tmp
$ vb add config.tmp
ADDED  config.tmp
$ vb ci -m "Add config"
Committed version: f59c2e23af54b7bc9a53e2562c58e674ee8dd9c587166ff60d10ae4c35dbe648

• Remove the file from version control

$ vb rm config.tmp
DELETED config.tmp

• Show changes (DELETED) and commit

$ vb changes
DELETED    config.tmp

$ vb ci -m "Remove config"
Committed version: fa58a99c41eba9e21bea10ea356ddf62b03631fe4df099b3bff1c9ed9f226b7e

See Also

See also

addremove, add