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Re: New to Git / Questions about single user / multiple projects

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 19, 2009, 12:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20090819124924.GD20381@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<a2db4dd50908190528o7f16b65are1acc89c900f7014@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:28:04AM -0400, Rob (gmail) wrote:
> That seems like the best solution.
> How do I delete my initial repository that I created and obviously
> messed up ?

If you have nothing of value in the whole directory, just "rm -rf repo". If you want to keep the working tree but delete all of the git bits, just "rm -rf .git".

-Peff
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