Delete everything and upload new version

Question

We are using git for version control and right now we are getting a lot of warnings when trying to upload the most recent version. I am new to git and don\'t have patience for t

Answer 1

If you want to permanently delete the files from the remote repository and in retrospect as if they weren't pushed in the first place to start fresh, then base on this answer you could do the following

Run the following locally (Notice the * deletes every folder/file):

git filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch *" -- --all

Now it's time to update git references locally to enforce it to forget all the history it had of those files

rm -rf .git/refs/original/

git reflog expire --expire=now --all

git gc --prune=now

git gc --aggressive --prune=now

Now push all the changes to the remote repository with a FORCE to ensure the remote repo also clears all those files

git push --all --force

This would clean up the remote repository as if no file ever existed.