Stop tracking an entire repository to delete local files

Question

A simple question:

How do I stop tracking an entire repository and delete all the local files safely?
I have a remote repository, which, after a few commits, I decide to leave alone. But I also don't want it to clog up my disk space, so I want to wipe it off my local disk.

Answer 1

If the repo was this for example

git clone git://github.com/antirez/redis.git

You can remove the local files by simply deleting the folder

rm -r redis

This will leave the remote files untouched.