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Jide Awotona
Jide Awotona
1,119 Points
Posted by Jide Awotona
Jide Awotona
1,119 Points

I need to remove the repository I just created I entered rm -r /project_folder/.git but says its a fail

learning git and currently trying to do a challenge

Moderator Edit: Changed Topic of Post to better reflect the subject of the question posted.

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Niko Klanecek
Niko Klanecek
3,152 Points
Niko Klanecek
Niko Klanecek
3,152 Points

What message did you actually get? I'm thinking you might have protected files in your .git/ directory, so maybe try rm -rf /project_folder/.git. The added -f flag means to force-remove.