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I want to clear the git log files so that the command git log returns nothing. Is this possible? Is this recommended?
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basically what you want to do is delete the file containing the logs which is your ". git" file. rm -rf . git // this is saying remove recursively the git file.
To remove the last commit from git, you can simply run git reset --hard HEAD^ If you are removing multiple commits from the top, you can run git reset --hard HEAD~2 to remove the last two commits. You can increase the number to remove even more commits.
Steps to get to a clean commit history:understand rebase and replace pulling remote changes with rebase to remove merge commits on your working branch. use fast-forward or squash merging option when adding your changes to the target branch. use atomic commits — learn how to amend, squash or restructure your commits.
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git log displays the change history of your project. If you really want to discard all of that history, you could...
rm -rf .git
git init
...but there are a relatively small number of situations where that really makes sense.
There aren't any "git log files" that git uses to produce this output; it is iterating over the database of objects that form the history of your project. If you delete the .git directory like this, there's no going back:
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