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.
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Try removing the .git directory and .gitignore if exist: rm -Rf .git .gitignore
Daniel Pérez
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Entering _ls_ into the terminal didn't show _.git_ or _.gitignore_, but running rm -Rf .git .gitignore solved the problem. – salehgeek Jun 02 '17 at 20:57
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@salehgeek That is because `ls` doesn't show hidden files by default. you would have better luck with `ls -A` or `ls -a` (the latter also shows the current and top directories as '.' and '..') – Douwe van der Leest Mar 10 '20 at 10:43
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The shorted command should be
rm -Rf .git*
EDIT:
You must remove only .git folder. Your home's .gitignore file is used by git to automatically ignore files. For example, ... instead of put .idea (an editor dot file) in all your project, you can just add it once in your global gitignore.
Tecnically
rm -rf .git*
delete also this .gitignore file.
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3Don't do it — the command will remove global .gitconfig if you have it! Just do `rm -rf .git`. – phd Jun 02 '17 at 22:13
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And tell me, ... if you are inside the project's folder, how can you be also in the root folder where the global .gitignore file is present? – sensorario Jun 02 '17 at 22:22
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2The original poster asked about his home folder — and this is exactly where global .gitignore is. – phd Jun 02 '17 at 22:23
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Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/145749/discussion-between-phd-and-sensorario). – phd Jun 02 '17 at 22:23