How to ungit a directory?

Question

I have accidentally put my home folder under git version control. How can I undo this? I am running Ubuntu 16.04.

Interestingly, running

$ git status

Informs me that the Mozilla Firefox cache has been altered.

Screenshot of terminal

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Answer 1

Try removing the .git directory and .gitignore if exist: rm -Rf .git .gitignore

Answer 2

You can just remove the .git folder from your homedir.