{"id":110,"date":"2011-05-22T05:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T05:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2011-08-11T06:02:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:02:34","slug":"how-to-delete-or-remove-a-local-git-repo-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-delete-or-remove-a-local-git-repo-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete or remove a local Git repo (repository)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you want to delete everything (.git folder, files and folders), just delete the whole directory<\/p>\n

Mac OSX
\nOpen Terminal and run the following<\/p>\n

\r\nrm -rf directoryname\r\n<\/pre>\n
Windows
\nRight-click the folder and choose Delete. It will goes to Recycle bin<\/p>\n
Note: this works for Git Clone and Git Init<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you want to delete everything (.git folder, files and folders), just delete the whole directory Mac OSX Open Terminal and run the following rm -rf directoryname Windows Right-click the folder and choose Delete. It will goes to Recycle bin Note: this works for Git Clone and Git Init<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[50,53,36,52],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os","category-windows","tag-git","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-2","tag-windows-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-1M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/git-lesson-branch\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":0},"title":"Git lesson : Branch","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"April 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"What is GIT? 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