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Uninitialize git repository

I have Initialized a git repository and have made some commit in that now for some reason I do not want to track any files in it and want to remove git from my local repo. Is there some way I can Uninitialize it?

Solution

  • git stores all the repository related data in a folder named ".git" inside your repository folder. So you just want to keep your files but change it into a "not-git-repository". Warning: this is irreversible!

    cd path/to/repo
rm -rf .git

    The only files that might remain are hidden ".gitignore" files (but only if you added them yourself or using some tool like eclipse). To remove them:

    find . -name ".gitignore" | xargs rm

    If you have multiple git repositories nested within a folder, you can uninitialize all of them with:

    find . -name ".git" | xargs rm -rf