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I have cloned a "dotfiles" Git repository into my home directory and I'm trying to remove all the files associated with it.

How can I safely remove all files that belong to the repository without accidentally deleting any other files from my home directory?

mkrieger1
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R Harrington
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  • How did you clone? Git usually creates a sub-directory for a cloned repo. You cn just remove it. – Serge Feb 02 '20 at 22:27

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You can use git ls-files to list the repository files and to pipe the output to rm

git ls-files | awk -F "/" '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | xargs rm -rf

After that delete the .git folder 

rm -rf .git
Yuri G.
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