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Can I remove a git repo without resorting to rm -rf ? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Git repos have lots of write protected files in the .git directory, sometimes hundreds, and the default rm my_project_managed_by_git will prompt before deleting each write protected file. So, to actually delete my project I have to do rm -rf my_project_managed_by_git.

Using rm -rf scares me. Is there a reasonable way to delete git repos without it?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

A tip I saw some time ago is to do:

rm folder -rf

Additionally you could move the git folder to the trash folder. I think it's usually located at $HOME/.local/share/trash/files/

Then you can delete it from the trash once you're certain you got the right folder

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Additionally you could move the git folder to the trash folder. I think it's usually located at $HOME/.local/share/trash/files/

Moving something to the trash files folder isn't the correct way to trash it, since the Trash specification requires storing some metadata for each trash item.

You should use eg. trash-cli instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

xdg-trash