Remove mistakenly pushed files from GitHub

• August 27, 2025 at 16:24 IST
• github
• coding

I accidentally pushed an incomplete blog post .md file to GitHub for my personal blog, and then had to remove from GitHub without deleting it locally. So I looked it up, and this is how it's done:

1. Remove the file from Git tracking (but keep it locally)

git rm --cached content/blog/still-brave-browser/index.md

2. Commit the removal

git commit -m "Commit message"

3. Push the changes to GitHub

git push origin main

Basically, the git rm --cached command removes the file from Git's tracking without deleting it from your local filesystem, so you can continue editing it.

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