Remove git mapping in Visual Studio 2015

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This question has nothing to do with git itself  rather  it has to do with removing a binding mapping to a git repository that Visual Studio 2015  VS2015  has previously seen   Here s a screen shot of the problem    Notice that the remove button is grayed out  disabled   How can I remove this entry from the  Local Git Repositories  list

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You cant delete local git repository when its already connected  so close the solution  open another solution and then remove the local git repository  dont forget to delete  git hidden folder works for me

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The solution is much simpler than that  You simply need to remove three files from the project UNC Path  Navigate to your solution s UNC Path  Example  C  Users Your User Name Documents Visual Studio 2015 Projects Your Project Folder Then permanently delete   quot SHIFT   DEL quot   the  git  files and folder  There are two files and one folder  which may be hidden so ensure you have your folders and search options  gt  View  gt  show hidden files  folder  and drives  Radio Button  Selected  The files to permanently delete are    gitignore  file   gitattributes  file   git  folder   Reopen Visual Studio and there is no more relationship to the Git Source Control  If you wanted to take it as far as removing it from the registry as mentioned above  you could  but that shouldn t be necessary aside from the  quot house keeping quot  of your machine

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Go to Control Panel User Accounts Credential Manager and select Windows Credential then remove account of git

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Connect to a different repository  I tried with a TFS repository   then go to Manage Connections  right click the Git repository and you might be able to remove it   But you still have to manually remove the  git folder and files from your project path before opening the solution again

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download the extension from microsoft and install to remove GIT extension from Visual studio and SSMS   https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName MarkRendle NoGit  SSMS  Edit the ssms pkgundef file found at C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft SQL Server 130 Tools Binn ManagementStudio ssms pkgundef and remove all git related entries

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Short Version   Remove the appropriate entr y ies  under HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VisualStudio 14 0 TeamFoundation GitSourceControl Repositories  Remove HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VisualStudio 14 0 TeamFoundation GitSourceControl General LastUsedRepository if it s the same as the repo you are trying to remove    Background  It seems like Visual Studio tracks all of the git repositories that it has seen  Even if you close the project that was referencing a repository  old entries may still appear in the list   This problem is not new to Visual Studio   VS2013 - How do I remove local git repository from team explorer window when option Remove is always disabled   Remove Git binding from Visual Studio 2013 solution   This all seems like a lot of work for something that should probably be a built-in feature  The above  solutions  mention making modifications to the  git file etc   I don t like the idea of having to change things outside of Visual Studio to affect things inside Visual Studio  Although my solution needs to make a few registry edits  and is external to VS   at least these only affect VS  Here is the work-around  read  hack    Detailed Instructions  Be sure to have Visual Studio 2015 closed before following these steps   1  Open regedit exe and navigate to  HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VisualStudio 14 0 TeamFoundation GitSourceControl Repositories     You might see multiple  hash  values that represent the repositories that VS is tracking   2  Find the git repository you want to remove from the list  Look at the name and path values to verify the correct repository to delete     3  Delete the key  and corresponding subkeys     Optional  before deleting  you can right click and choose Export to back up this key in case you make a mistake   Now  right click on the key  in my case this is AE76C67B6CD2C04395248BFF8EBF96C7AFA15AA9 and select Delete    4  Check that the LastUsedRepository key points to  something else    If the repository mapping you are trying to remove in the above steps is stored in LastUsedRepository  then you ll need to remove this key  also  First navigate to   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VisualStudio 14 0 TeamFoundation GitSourceControl General     and delete the key LastUsedRepository  the key will be re-created by VS if needed   If you are worried about removing the key  you can just modify the value and set it to an empty string     When you open Visual Studio 2015 again  the git repository binding should not appear in the list anymore

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A Git repository can be removed from the Local Git Repositories list in VS-2015 when it is no longer the active project   Your screen shot has only have one repository present  and it is active  so you can t remove it   When you have two or more repositories  one of them will be shown in BOLD representing the active repository   Other non-active repositories can  at that time  be removed   So  to solve your problem  if you connect with a second local repository  you will be able to remove the one you are highlighting in your screen shot   Unfortunately  Team Explorer seems to always keep one repository active   Not sure how to convince it to let go altogether without switching to another repository

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Tools -  Options -  Source Control -  Current Source Control Plug-in  None

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NoGit extension simply hides the problem  by turning off the Git source control provider each time the solution is loaded  It does this job for every solution that is loaded in Visual Studio   I solved by opening another project and removing the Git repository from the Local Git Repositories  as Chris C  suggested  View   Team Explorer   Local Git Repositories  select the repository that has to be removed and click Remove   Then I removed  git folder from the project path  as suggested by helix  Reopened the project and finally Git integration was gone

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The above answer did not work for me   The registry entries would just be automatically re-added when I opened the solution in Visual Studio   I found the resolution in one of the links in Matthews answer though so credit still goes to him for the correct answer   Remove Git binding from Visual Studio 2013 solution    Remove the hidden  git folder in your solutionfolder   I also removed the  gitattributes and  gitignore files just to keep my folder clean

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Matthew Kraus Please Click tools from menu bar then click Options   Find the Source Control then  select  None  from dropdown list and Click OK  Delete hidden  git folder from your project folder  Re-open your project

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It s so simple   make sure that you are not connected to the project you want to delete  project is closed in the solution explorer That a all  if your retry now  the remove action will enabled

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Navigate to your project directory Click on the folder Menu-  Tools-  Folder options Select the View-tab Select Under File and Folders the Show hidden files  folder  and drives Click OK Delete the  git folder Close and re-open you Visual Studio Open your project  Done       Safe coding

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I spent some time to remove the git integration from my visual studio   2015 project  any time i remove git from visual studio  and add TFS by following this  -- Tools -  option -  sourceControl -  plugin selection -  Visual Studio Team foundation server  it used to come back   My solution was -  making the physical location of my project- Show all hidden files  you can do this by  show hidden files and folder option of windows  then i realize  there was a hidden folder called  git something  I kept a full back up of my project folder and also the git folder any other back up that necessary  I kept this back up incase my project breaks  so that i can go back to previous condition    then i have deleted the hidden  git folder and any other  git related files   then i try to Tools -  option -  sourceControl -  plugin selection -  Visual Studio Team foundation server  then i open the project by visual studio- File -  open -  project solution    after that i noiticed in solution explorer   right clicking the solution namei see  Source control  option   and also in project - right click i see  Add soution to source control    and this time it didn t add solution to git    also it is good to remove any git connection from your source control exploerer  if there is any    so the main thing is that make sure there is no hidden git file in your project file and any other git extension   hope this will be helpful to someone

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In addition to Juliano Nunes Silva Oliveira s answer  the simplest and most clean way without hacking into the regedit  removing hidden  git folders or changing your VS15 settings is by connecting to a different repository  When connected you see the text of the other repository bold then select your Git local repository  Now you see that the      Remove   menu item is enabled so you are able to delete your Git local repository   It s the same type of behaviour when dealing with Branches when using Git with visual studio 2015  You need to select different branch before you can delete the branch you wan to delete      For the ones who needs visualization to understand it better  see link image  how it s done  Happy coding

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It just looks for the presence of the  git directory in the solution folder  Delete that folder  possibly hidden  and Visual Studio will no longer consider it a git project

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Removing  git hidden folder worked for me

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