Removing code from GitHub

Question

Is there a way to entirely remove a directory and its history from GitHub?

Answer 1

To selectively delete a file or directory (and all its associated history), you can use git filter-branch.

This is very useful when you want to completely delete files checked into the repository by mistake.

The syntax is simple:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f filename' HEAD

More info on the man page.