Git - did init bare in wrong directory

Question

I ran the git --bare init in a wrong directory(in the server). I see the files branches, config, deps etc., in that directory.. How do I undo it?

Answer 1

Since you performed a '--bare' init, there is no .git directory - instead the normal contents of the .git directory are directly in the parent directory. For example, the place where you did 'git init --bare' looks something like:

$ git --bare init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/ebg/test/foo/
$ ls
HEAD        config      hooks/      objects/
branches/   description info/       refs/

to undo this simply perform:

rm -rf HEAD config hooks objects branches description info refs

Of course, be careful if you already had files and directories there with those names.

Answer 2

If you did it on directory which wasn't previously set up as git repository, you can just remove .git folder (assuming you're using linux):

rm -rf .git

Otherwise, if directory already contained repository (.git directory), than git init would have no effect (i.e. git log will show the same commits before and after git init).