How to clear the index of a git repository from deleted files?

Question

git

The problem is this:

git status
#       deleted:    ëÏÐÉÑ.txt

The file itself has been physically deleted a long time ago, after that there were a lot of commits. I tried like this, but it didn't work:

$ git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)
fatal: pathspec 'ëÏÐÉÑ.txt' did not match any files

What can be done in such a case?

Answer 1

git commit -am "MSG"- helps