This repository provides a simple guide on how to remove files from a Git repository without deleting them from your local file system. Removing files from a Git repository can be necessary when you ...

While .DS_Store files are obviously useful for the Finder, they are not useful for having in a git repository. Let’s review how you can remove all DS_Store files from a git repo, and how to prevent ...

If a developer wants to delete a user’s instance of a GitHub repository, it would require a manual deletion of all the associated files and folders on a user’s physical machine as well.

I accidentally (without fully understanding what I was doing) clicked the "Create Repository" button ... But they're all gone. Is it possible the files have been uploaded somewhere? or were they ...

Every Git repo has a hidden folder named .git in which the DVCS tool stores all of its configuration data. If your computer hasn’t been configured to show hidden files and folders, attempts to locally ...