How to remove the first commit in git?

Question

I am curious about how to remove the first commit in git.

What is the revision before committing any thing? Does this revision have a name or tag?

Answer 1

Another way you can do is:

1. Checkout to a branch you want to keep (say dev) git checkout dev
2. Now, delete the branch you want to reset git branch -D master
3. Now, create an empty branch with the same name git checkout --orphan master

Ofcourse, all of this would depend on your usecase, but if you have more than one branch, deleting the .git directory does not make sense.