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Susan Rusie
10,671 PointsHow do you delete a repository if you misspelled it?
I just realized I misspelled my repository name on the nano command line? I couldn't find any documentation to figure this out. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
2 Answers
Torben Korb
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 91,394 PointsJust the remove the hidden .git folder from the directory. After this you can init a new repository. Hope this helps!
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsIf you want to remove a git repository from a folder, you just need to delete the hidden .git folder, as Torben Korb said. If you're doing this from the command line, you just need these commands:
# Make sure you're in the directory of the repository you want to delete
cd path/to/project
# Delete the repository folder and everything in it
rm -r .git
Susan Rusie
10,671 PointsWhy is this not working? This is what I am seeing in the console:
treehouse~/my_first_repsository $ ls -a
. .. file1 file2 file3
treehouse~/my_first_repsository $ rm -r .git
rm: cannot remove 'git': No such file or directory
I've already had my console reset before and I would like to avoid having to do that again if at all possible.
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsAccording to ls -a, there is no .git folder, which means that you've already deleted it