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MTCoster
MTCoster

Reputation: 6145

Clear git repository on Bitbucket?

I'm just getting started with git, and started messing about with Bitbucket. However, I now want to use the repository I created, but without its initial history.

Is there any way I can clear out or purge my repository so that I can start from scratch?

I'm not too bothered about any of the content, so can I just delete the repository, then create a new one with the same name?

Upvotes: 82

Views: 61339

Answers (2)

protaru
protaru

Reputation: 29

Indeed it works, but for the push command you will need to provide again the full path to the repo, since the local repo was reinitialized. So origin will need to be replaced with something like this: https://[email protected]/banana/test.git

The command should look like this:

git push --force -u https://[email protected]/banana/test.git master

Upvotes: 3

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324278

No need to delete it.

From your new local repo create directory or remote simple the .git, if you want upload (without history) an existing repo:

 rm -rf .git

Recreate the repos from the current content only

 git init
 git add .
 git commit -m "Initial commit"

Then simply push to the github remote repos ensuring you overwrite history:

 git push --force -u origin master

That will replace the history of your BitBucket master branch by the new one you have done locally.

Now, if you had pushed other branches before, you might want to delete them.

git push origin :oldBranch

Upvotes: 158

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