Hi.
Whenever you clone (git clone) a git repo you get a repository, this means
that you can't use git init because it's already a repo and you will have
the .git folder. Now what you may want it's to discard the repo history,
it's that what you want?
El lun., 2 de nov. de 2015 a la(s) 8:02 a. m.,
git clone effectively does the following:
mkdir projectdir
cd projectdir
git init
git remote add origin projecturl
git fetch origin
git checkout -b master origin/master
(of course, it's a bit more complicated, but it comes down to this)
As you see, there is a "git init" there, which, among other
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> Because when I start a new project and git clone from github it pulls down
>> a .git folder with all of the versioning from the repo.
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Because it was hidden, the clone I pulled down I went git init and it said
git had already been initalized and when I showed all files I saw it had
all t
How do you know it is added if GitHub does'n show it?
GitHub doesn't hide hidden files from its listing (see the .travis.yml file
in this repo[1] for an example.)
Also note that you can't actually add the .git folder to your history: the
command ”git add .git" doesn't do anything.
On 2 Nov 2015 0
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> Hi Thanks
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Well for some reason it has added itself to my github repo and I would like
to get rid of it but don't know how as per my initial post.
Any ideas?
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Hello,
the .git folder is the repository itself: it contains the whole history of
your app. Removing it will remove the whole repository history, which may
or may not be good, depending on your requirement. Also, there's no point
ignoring it; it is not checked into the repository because it *is* t
I have made myself a boilerplate app and have uploaded it to github.
I forgot to ignore .git folder as I don't want the versioning to go with it.
I have now added it to my .gitignore but when I clone the app down from
github the .git folder is downloaded. I can't see it in github cause its a
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