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I cloned a Github repository in my directory, but it came full of commits, ie versioned. I wanted to restart it as a repository, from scratch, as I do?
I’ve tried the remote: git reset (didn’t work out).
What I want is the contrary to the command git init
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Delete the hidden folder .git within the repository and execute git init to start a new history.
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I managed with the following command on linux/Ubuntu
rm -rf .git
git rm -Rf . git
I think this was the best solution, I do not know why it is not the right answer.
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As already answered by dcastro, just remove the folder .git which is inside the repository. So you can start again.
If for some reason you don’t want to download a repository history when cloning it, use the --Depth flag as in the example:
git clone https://github.com/curl/curl.git --depth=1
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$ git rm file.txt
Changes to be submitted:
deleted: file.txt
$ git commit -m "removed file.txt"
https://medium.com/@andgomes/git-removing-files-one-reposit%C3%B3rio-7eed699a035f
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With this command you can remove all the files Traced.
rm -rf .git
On linux, it is no use to remove the folder .Git that the historical returns.
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you want to clone a repository but you want it to come without commits?
– athosbr99
@athosbr99 I think Bruno wants to erase the history of the commits... honestly, I can’t imagine a situation where he wanted to do that. I always think it’s important to preserve the history.
– dcastro
I imagined doing this so that I could commit to Github as a newly initialized repository. Without the commits that came when I cloned someone else’s repository. There is @dcastro a better way to do this, or this is not good practice?
– Bruno Alexandre
Is the repository you cloned also hosted on Github? If so, it’s best to "Fork" to get a copy of the repository
– dcastro
Either way, I think you should always keep track. You can always push the clone to github with the old history.
– dcastro
I know a former college professor who was asked to help find a bug in a company project. A task that should have lasted a day or two, it took weeks, because someone decided to erase the whole history and there was no way to find out when the bug was entered.
– dcastro