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15 JAN

Reinitialize your Git repo

This came in very handy when you want to reinitialize your Git repository from scratch without losing the current folder structure.

WHY?

I started developing an iPhone application and for API testing purposes I manually added my username and password in the code. And by accident I committed the change...

So now my password was in the Git history.

HOW?

Just remove the .git file from the top folder.

rm -rf .git

And then initialize the repository.

git init

And that's it... Very easy! Thank you Julien for helping me!

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Another way to do this is described on the guides of Github: http://i5.be/al4. This is maybe a more solid approach! This way you don't love all the versions of the other files in your project.

written by Jelle vandebeeck → 8 months ago

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