Kohei Nozaki's blog 

Assume this:

kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r--+ 1 kyle  staff  5  3  9 09:27 hoge.txt
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ cat hoge.txt 
hoge
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ 

Delete

Delete from working tree

kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ rm hoge.txt
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#   deleted:    hoge.txt
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ 

Add deletion to index

kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git rm hoge.txt
rm 'hoge.txt'
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   deleted:    hoge.txt
#
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$

Commit

kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git commit -m 'delete'
[master 8793936] delete
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
 delete mode 100644 hoge.txt
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ ls -l
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ 

Move / Rename

kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git mv hoge.txt hige.txt
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   renamed:    hoge.txt -> hige.txt
#
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ 

• Another identical operation:

kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ mv hoge.txt hige.txt
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git rm hoge.txt
rm 'hoge.txt'
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git add hige.txt
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   renamed:    hoge.txt -> hige.txt
#
kyle-no-MacBook:gitprac5 kyle$