How to "un-git-ify" my HD

Question

So a few months ago, I apparently created a local repository, in the form of my user folder on my hard drive. I did this using some fool's attempt at a Git101 documentation, and as a result I currently have 168,352 pending/unstated changes. Is there a way to not only remove the git bookmark (from source tree), but also remove all of the .git* files from each folder?

Obviously, my goal is not to remove the contents from my user folder... as that would be bad.

Answer 1

If you did git init in the root of your user folder, it should have only created a .git folder in that folder itself.

You can remove it without damaging your actual files by executing the following in a terminal from your home folder:

rm -rf ~/.git/