Remove all git files from a directory

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I have a folder under version control   I want to make a copy of it to send around  but don t want to include all the  git directories and the files underneath it    Is there a way to remove all the git files instead of manually deleting all of them

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You can use git-archive  for example   git archive master   bzip2  gt  project tar bz2   Where master is the desired branch

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How to remove all  git directories under a folder in Linux   Run this find command  it will list all  git directories under the current folder   find   -type d -name   git     amp  amp  find   -name   gitignore     amp  amp  find   -name   gitmodules    Prints      git    gitmodules   foobar  git   footbar2  git   footbar2  gitignore   There should only be like 3 or 4  git directories because git only has one  git folder for every project   You can rm -rf yourpath each of the above by hand     If you feel like removing them all in one command and living dangerously     Retrieve all the files named   git  and pump them into  rm -rf    WARNING if you don t understand why how this command works  DO NOT run it     find   -type d -name   git       amp  amp  find   -name   gitignore       amp  amp  find   -name   gitmodules      xargs rm -rf    WARNING  if you accidentally pipe a     or     or other wildcard   into xargs rm -rf  then the next question you will have is   why is   the bash ls command not found   Requiring an OS reinstall

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cd to the repository then  find   -name   git   -exec rm -R         Make sure not to accidentally pipe a single dot  slash  asterisk  or other regex wildcard into find  or else rm will happily delete it

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In case someone else stumbles onto this topic - here s a more  one size fits all  solution   If you are using  git or  svn  you can use the --exclude-vcs option for tar  This will ignore many different files folders required by different version control systems   If you want to read more about it  check out  http   www gnu org software tar manual html section exclude html

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ls   xargs find 2  dev null   egrep    git    xargs rm -rf  This command  and it is just one command  will recursively remove  git directories  and files  that are in a directory without deleting the top-level git repo  which is handy if you want to commit all of your files without managing any submodules   find 2  dev null   egrep    git    xargs rm -rf  This command will do the same thing  but will also delete the  git folder from the top-level directory

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The  git folder is only stored in the root directory of the repo  not all the sub-directories like subversion  You should be able to just delete that one folder  unless you are using Submodules   then they will have one too

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Unlike other source control systems like SVN or CVS  git stores all of its metadata in a single directory  rather than in every subdirectory of the project  So just delete  git from the root  or use a script like git-export  and you should be fine

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