How to remove all git file except .gitignore

Question

I want to remove all git related files in project except .gitignore file. The commands I found about git remove will remove everything, but most of the time I still need gitignore

How would you do that?

Answer 1

rm -rf .git

这将删除除gitignore以外的所有git文件

Answer 2

You can set a environment in order to ignore special file patterns for the *

For example:

GLOBIGNORE='.git*'
git rm *

so it won't remove any files that starts with .git

More info on GLOBIGNORE

However, if you want to ignore every dot file you can have a look at dotglob

# set dotglob
shopt -s dotglob

git rm *

# unset dotglob
shopt -u dotglob