Add Find And Remove Files That Match A Name as a Git TIL

README.md

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-_1254 TILs and counting..._
+_1256 TILs and counting..._
 
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 * [Netlify](#netlify)
 * [Next.js](#nextjs)
 * [Phoenix](#phoenix)
+* [Planetscale](#planetscale)
 * [pnpm](#pnpm)
 * [PostgreSQL](#postgresql)
 * [Prisma](#prisma)
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 - [Dry Runs in Git](git/dry-runs-in-git.md)
 - [Exclude A File From A Diff Output](git/exclude-a-file-from-a-diff-output.md)
 - [Excluding Files Locally](git/excluding-files-locally.md)
+- [Find And Remove Files That Match A Name](git/find-and-remove-files-that-match-a-name.md)
 - [Find The Date That A File Was Added To The Repo](git/find-the-date-that-a-file-was-added-to-the-repo.md)
 - [Find The Initial Commit](git/find-the-initial-commit.md)
 - [Get The Name Of The Current Branch](git/get-the-name-of-the-current-branch.md)
@@ -557,6 +559,10 @@ _1254 TILs and counting..._
 - [Specifying The Digest Directory](phoenix/specifying-the-digest-directory.md)
 - [Specifying The Server Port](phoenix/specifying-the-server-port.md)
 
+### Planetscale
+
+- [Seed Production Data Into Another Branch](planetscale/seed-production-data-into-another-branch.md)
+
 ### pnpm
 
 - [Execute A Command From The Workspace Root](pnpm/execute-a-command-from-the-workspace-root.md)

git/find-and-remove-files-that-match-a-name.md

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+# Find And Remove Files That Match A Name
+
+Let's say I have a bunch of `robots.txt` file scattered throughout my project.
+I want to find all instances of that file checked into git. I then want to
+remove that file from git.
+
+I can find all the instances of that file checked into git using the
+[`git-ls-files`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-ls-files) command.
+
+```bash
+$ git ls-files '**/robots.txt'
+project-a/public/robots.txt
+project-b/public/robots.txt
+apps/project-c/public/robots.txt
+```
+
+That results in a list of paths of those files regardless of how far down they
+are nested (because of the `**` glob pattern).
+
+And because `git-ls-files` is a _git plumbing_ command, it pipes cleanly into
+other unix commands.
+
+I can combine that first command with [`git
+rm`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rm) using the
+[`xargs`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/xargs.1.html) command.
+
+```bash
+$ git ls-files '**/robots.txt' | xargs git rm
+rm 'project-a/public/robots.txt'
+rm 'project-b/public/robots.txt'
+rm 'apps/project-c/public/robots.txt'
+```
+
+That takes each path from the first part of the command and passes it to `git
+rm` which stages it as a removed file.
+
+I can finalize my work by creating a commit from these staged changes.

planetscale/seed-production-data-into-another-branch.md

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+# Seed Production Data Into Another Branch
+
+When you [create a Planetscale
+branch](https://planetscale.com/docs/reference/branch) off `main`, it will only
+copy over the schema. No data will be copied over to that new branch.
+
+You can copy data over from the initial branch (`main`) in two steps from the
+CLI. First, create a dump of the branch. Then restore the dump into your new
+branch.
+
+```bash
+$ pscale database dump database-name main --output ./dump
+```
+
+That creates SQL files locally in the `dump` folder with both schema and data
+statements.
+
+That folder of SQL files can then be restored into one of your branches.
+
+```bash
+$ pscale database restore-dump database-name branch-name --dir ./dump --overwrite-tables
+```
+
+The `--overwrite-tables` flag is needed because your branch's existing schema
+will conflict with the `create` schema statements in the SQL files.
+
+You can `pscale shell` into that branch and run a `select ...` statement to
+check out the data.