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Many software developers use Git to share code with other teams, and to manage source code as a team. Most open source software development is done using Git. Git is free and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.

Sometimes we want to delete a local repository in Git. Don’t panic, we will see how to delete a local repository in Git. Since a local repository is just a directory, you can delete it by simply using the Git command delete directory.

If you find that the more complex your project is, the more complex the branches in your repo are, it's not that complicated to say that git deletes branches. We never really need to go beyond simple examples, but we know that we can easily find resources on how to do this in Git if we need to.

Delete the Git local repository

When we delete a Git repository locally, we delete the local copy of the Git repository. The contents of the repository are not deleted, they are just deleted from the local copy of the repository. The contents of the repository are still available on the server.

When we delete a Git repository locally, Team Explorer deletes the local copy of the repository and any branches created from the repository. Team Explorer also deletes any changes made to the repository contents.

Before we delete a Git repository locally, Team Explorer shows that the repository has two branches, master and dev. After we delete the Git repository locally, Team Explorer shows that the repository has no branches.

Command Line Git Repository Deletion If we know the terminal window or DOS prompt, we can easily perform command line Git repository deletion. We simply run the command with the -fand -rswitches rmto recursively delete the Git repository and all the files and folders it contains. The following command will delete the entire command line Git repository:

rm -f -r ~/Projects/MyProject.git 

When we run this command, we will first get a warning. We can ignore it since we want to forcefully delete it. Furthermore, we will type y and press Enter to confirm the deletion, and since the branch was successfully deleted, we are done.

If we only want to delete Git related information such as branches and versions, please delete the Git directory in the root directory of our repository. If you want to completely delete the repository from the disk, please delete the Git directory and Git/infothe directory.

Git directories are hidden by default, so we need to be able to see hidden files to delete them. Deleting Git/infothe Git directory without a directory may cause us problems if we want to recreate the repository again. Git will not be able to do this because the commit history will be lost in this case.

Stash features are useful if we want to temporarily put a part of our repository aside, but we don't want to delete it permanently. This can be useful when we are working on a large feature and we are not ready to merge it completely yet. We can make a temporary branch and start working on our feature there, and when we are done with that work we can merge it back into the current branch again.