Egit - commited new project to wrong repository, can not delate it

Question

I recently created new project ("FirstSimpleWebDataBase") and committed it to new repo.
Today I was working on my old project ( "BeamReinforcement" ) and accidentally pushed whole "firstSimpleWebDataBese" project into it's repository.

When I check repo at Github it's shows this:

Added by accident project is grey and I would like to delete it.
I checked history in EGit but there is not such commit so I can not reverse it from eclipse. How can I fix it ?

Answer 1

That gray folder is a gitlink (a special entry in the parent index)

What you can do locally is make sure that folder is removed:

• make sure to move FirstSimpleWebDatabase outside the Git repo folder

• type:

  git rm --cached FirstSimpleWebDatabase  # no trailing slash
  git add .
  git commit -m "record deletion of FirstSimpleWebDatabase gitlink"
  git push
  

Then you can go back to Egit and go on from there.