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When you use the git init
command, it will initialize a brand new Git repository in the same folder that the command was run in.
It will initialize in a folder called .git
in the root directory, and it will contain all the information about the repository.
In this post, we'll learn how you can effectively undo this, and delete the repository locally.
Removing a repository locally
You can remove a Git repository created locally by git init
by simply removing the resulting .git
folder.
When this folder is removed, it will no longer be a valid Git repository, as that is what Git uses to identify a repository.
You can simply use your operating system's file manager to remove the .git
folder by right-clicking on it and selecting Delete
.
Windows
If you're on Windows, you can use the following command to remove the .git
folder:
BASHrmdir .git
macOS
If you're running macOS, you can use the following command to remove the .git
folder:
BASHrm -rf .git
Linux
If you're on Linux, you can use the following command to remove the .git
folder:
BASHrm -rf .git
Regardless of your operating system, once the folder is gone, the repository will no longer be a valid Git repository.
Conclusion
In this post, we learned how to remove a Git repository locally, effectively reversing what git init
does.
Simply get rid of the resulting .git
folder, and the repository will no longer exist on your computer.
Thanks for reading!
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