Deleting the .git folder may cause problems in our git repository.
If we want to delete all of our commits history,
but keep the code in its current state.
Check out to a temporary branch:
git checkout --orphan TEMP_BRANCH
Add all the files:
git add -A
Commit the changes:
git commit -am "Initial commit"
Delete the old branch:
git branch -D master
Rename the temporary branch to master:
git branch -m master
Finally, force update to our repository
git push -f origin master
NOTE: This will not keep our old commits history around.
Clone the project, e.g. testproject is my project repository:
git clone https://github/username/testproject.git
Since all of the commits history are in the .git folder, we have to remove it:
cd testproject
And delete the .git folder:
git rm -rf .git
Now, re-initialize the repository:
git init
git remote add origin https://github/username/testproject.git
git remote -v
Creating new branch
git branch -m testbranch:: skip here if not parsing ...
Add all the files and commit the changes:
git add --all
git commit -am "Initial commit"
Force push update to the master branch of our project repository:
git push -f origin master
NOTE: You might need to provide the credentials for your GitHub account.