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To delete commits from remote, you can use the git reset command if your commits are consecutive from the top or an interactive rebase otherwise. After you delete the commits locally, push those changes to the remote using the git push command with the force option.
The commits will still be retained in the repository and it is possible to recover them immediately after the delete, but eventually they will be garbage collected. Thanks for the answer.
In order to delete files recursively on Git, you have to use the “git rm” command with the “-r” option for recursive and specify the list of files to be deleted. This is particularly handy when you need to delete an entire directory or a subset of files inside a directory.
I've read and tried lots of Git command recommendations and discussion, going on over several days now. It appears that there really is no simple, comprehensive way to make a remote Git repo completely empty -- no branches, no refs, no objects, no files, no nothing.
Yes, I recognize that one could delete and recreate the repo -- if one had that kind of permissions on the origin (which I don't), but that is not the point. How is it done? What combination of Git commands will actually do this, leaving the repo in a virgin state ready to receive whatever we wish to push into it, and with essentially no size (or the minimal size of a virgin repo)?
Please don't tell me this shouldn't be done, or that we have to inform all users, etc. I know all that. I just want to start completely fresh.
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