How to fully delete a git repository created with init?

Question

I created a git repository with git init. I\'d like to delete it entirely and init a new one.

Answer 1

I tried:

rm -rf .git and also

Git keeps all of its files in the .git directory. Just remove that one and init again.

Neither worked for me. Here's what did:

• Delete all files except for .git
• git add . -A
• git commit -m "deleted entire project"
• git push

Then create / restore the project from backup:

• Create new project files (or copy paste a backup)
• git add . -A
• git commit -m "recreated project"
• git push