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I did git init and git add . on my home directory, which slowed every operation down, I think, because the directory is so large. How can I undo git init of the home directory?

Pippi
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  • [Is there a way to undo git init](https://stackoverflow.com/q/3212459/6521116) – LF00 Jun 07 '17 at 09:36
  • Possible duplicate of [Is there a command to undo git init?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3212459/is-there-a-command-to-undo-git-init) – LF00 Jun 07 '17 at 09:36

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You can just do rm -rf $HOME/.git to remove all the version control information stored by git, which undoes whatever git init did.

But I highly doubt that running git init could slow anything down.

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  • If he's running on Windows perhaps he's got some shell extension trying to badge everything now. – jthill Mar 04 '13 at 06:32