How to un-initialize a git folder in the root of my pc?

Question

I am beginner with git. A few weeks ago, I unintentionally created a "git init" on the root of my pc (location: desktop) which means all of my computer files are on that git folder.

How can i delete that git folder, without losing any of my coding or personal files?

Answer 1

You should have a hidden folder .git in the root directory then. You just have to delete that folder. It will delete only the git repository and leave all of the other files intact.

Answer 2

That's ok, I think that's happenened to any of us haha.

From your terminal, after navigating to your home directory (cd ~ if on MacOS, cd \user\username if on Windows), find the directory of this new project, then you can just run rm -rf <project-directory-name>.

If you just want to remove Git from your directory without removing the whole project, you can just remove .git at the root directory of it (cd <project-directory-name>, then rm -rf .git).