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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git Committing Changes

Posted by Richard Stringfellow
Richard Stringfellow
6,883 Points

What's wrong with question 2 of the challenge following Working With Git Repositories?

I've tried every permutation of rm, rm -r, /project_folder/, and .git I can think of, and can't come up with the right answer.

4 Answers

Richard Stringfellow
Richard Stringfellow
6,883 Points
Richard Stringfellow
Richard Stringfellow
6,883 Points

Gentlemen, yes. Thank you. I have one more problem: which do I mark as the best answer?

Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points
Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points

Give it to Caleb Viola because he got his answer in first!

Caleb Viola
Caleb Viola
5,694 Points
Caleb Viola
Caleb Viola
5,694 Points

It doesn't work when you do:

rm -r .git

?

Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points
Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points

It looks like the question is looking for:

rm -r .git

Shane Barringer
Shane Barringer
15,282 Points
Shane Barringer
Shane Barringer
15,282 Points

Question about this challenge -

i understand that rm - r .git works, but why won't rm -r project_files/.git work as well?