Remove all git files from a directory?

Question

I have a folder under version control. I want to make a copy of it to send around, but don\'t want to include all the .git directories and the files underneath it.

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Answer 1

cd to the repository then

find . -name ".git*" -exec rm -R {} \;

Make sure not to accidentally pipe a single dot, slash, asterisk, or other regex wildcard into find, or else rm will happily delete it.