How do I delete a local repository in git

Question

I can t find the command  I tried Googling  git  delete a repository

User · Answer

In the repository directory you remove the directory named .git and that's all :). On Un*x it is hidden, so you might not see it from file browser, but

cd repository-path/
rm -r .git

should do the trick.

User · Answer

That s right  if you re on a mac unix  you won t see  git in finder the file browser   You can follow the directions above to delete and there are git commands that allow you to delete files as well they are sometimes difficult to work with and learn  for example  on making a  git rm -r   command you might be prompted with a  git  not found   Here is the git command specs   usage  git rm  options   --       -n  --dry-run         dry run -q  --quiet           do not list removed files --cached              only remove from the index -f  --force           override the up-to-date check -r                    allow recursive removal --ignore-unmatch      exit with a zero status even if nothing matched   When I had to do this  deleting the objects and refs didn t matter  After I deleted the other files in the  git  I initialized a git repo with  git init  and it created an empty repo

User · Answer

To piggyback on rkj s answer  to avoid endless prompts  and force the command recursively   enter the following into the command line  within the project folder      rm -rf  git   Or to delete  gitignore and  gitmodules if any  via  aragaer      rm -rf  git    Then from the same ex-repository folder  to see if hidden folder  git is still there     ls -lah   If it s not  then congratulations  you ve deleted your local git repo  but not a remote one if you had it  You can delete GitHub repo on their site  github com    To view hidden folders in Finder  Mac OS X  execute these two commands in your terminal window   defaults write com apple finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder   Source  http   lifehacker com 188892 show-hidden-files-in-finder

User · Answer

Delete the  git directory in the root-directory of your repository if you only want to delete the git-related information  branches  versions    If you want to delete everything  git-data  code  etc   just delete the whole directory    git directories are hidden by default  so you ll need to be able to view hidden files to delete it

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