Delete all Git Commit History

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noway picture noway · Feb 20, 2013 · Viewed 39.8k times · Source

I am trying to fetch a repo from Github, revert a tag in past, push it to another remote with deleting all history. I can do everything with below except deleting all commit logs. What I am missing?

git clone https://github.com/user/user-repo.git
cd user-repo
git reset --hard tags/v2.0
git remote add stash ssh://git@myserver:7999/myproject/user-repo.git
git push --force stash master

Answer

pktangyue picture pktangyue · Feb 20, 2013

I thought what you want is a repo like a new one, so deleting the .git/ directory and re-initing it will be more simple.

git clone https://github.com/user/user-repo.git
cd user-repo
git reset --hard tags/v2.0

rm -rf .git/
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'first commit'

git remote add stash ssh://git@myserver:7999/myproject/user-repo.git
git push --force stash master

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