Wipe out and reset GitHub Repository from command line

<p dir="auto">Sometimes, when we work on a Tutorial, we want to wipe out our Project repository on GitHub and restart. Doing it from command line is easy and fast. <p dir="auto">Let's say your username on GitHub is "<code>username" and you want to reset the project "<code>my-project". Open a console and do the following: <h1>Delete your current project <pre><code>$ ls -a . .. my-project $ rm -rf my-project <p dir="auto">⚠ Performing <code>rm -rf from within your project directory will not work as it does not remove the hidden files and directories. <h1>Reinitialize an empty Git Repository <pre><code>$ mkdir my-project $ cd my-project my-project$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/username/projects/my-project/.git/ my-project$ git status On branch master No commits yet nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track) <h1>Link to GitHub <pre><code>my-project$ git remote add origin git@github.com:username/my-project.git my-project$ git remote -v origin git@github.com:username/my-project.git (fetch) origin git@github.com:username/my-project.git (push) <h1>Force PUSH the new Repository <pre><code>my-project$ touch README.md # 🅰 my-project$ git add . my-project$ git commit -m "Initial commit" [master (root-commit) b17b424] Initial commit 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 README.md my-project$ git push -uf origin master # 🅱 Counting objects: 3, done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 213 bytes | 213.00 KiB/s, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) To github.com:username/my-project.git + ed755d5...b17b424 master -> master (forced update) Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin. <p dir="auto">A few remarks: <p dir="auto">🅰 You have to commit at least one file before you can push your repository to Git. <p dir="auto">🅱 The flags we use when pushing are to force the reset of our repository on GitHub (<code>-f) and to set the remote <code>origin as default (<code>-u). After you run this comment, you will be able to push using just <code>git push. <h1>Bash script <p dir="auto">If you reset repositories a lot, you may want to create a bash script for this: <p dir="auto"><br /> <div class="pull-right"><sup>`reset_git.sh ```bash #!/bin/bash echo "GitHub Repository Reset" echo "GitHub username?" read username echo "GitHub repository?" read repository mkdir $repository cd $repository git init git remote add origin git@github.com:$username/$repository.git touch README.md git add . git commit -m "Initial commit" git push -uf origin master echo "Repository $repository for User $username has been reset!" ``` <p dir="auto">We deliberately didn't include the deletion (<code>rm -rf $repository) inside the bash script considering this to be too dangerous. <p dir="auto">So, after you change the execution permission on the script (<code>chmod +x reset_git.sh) you may run it as: <pre><code>$ rm -rf my-project $ ./reset_git.sh GitHub Repository Reset GitHub username? username GitHub repository? my-project Initialized empty Git repository in /home/username/my-project/.git/ [master (root-commit) 8d7d600] Initial commit 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 README.md Counting objects: 3, done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 214 bytes | 214.00 KiB/s, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) To github.com:username/my-project.git + 479bc7e...8d7d600 master -> master (forced update) Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin. Repository my-project for User username has been reset!