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link: Help.GitHub - Deleting a repo
Deleting a repo
Deleting a private repo will delete all forks of the repo. Deleting a public repo will not.
Go to the repository homepage → Admin → Delete this repository
Setup
- Installing git (OSX)
- How to install git on OSX
- Generating SSH keys
- How to generate SSH keys and add them to GitHub
- Troubleshooting SSH issues
- Solutions to common SSH issues
- Setting user name, email and GitHub token
- Configure your local git installation so that commits are linked to your GitHub account
- Installing Git HTML help
- How to install the local git HTML help files
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
- Managing multiple clients
- How to manage multiple clients and their repositories
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting SSH issues
- Solutions to common SSH issues
- Fixing egit corruption
- How to fix corruption in a remote repo caused by egit
- Testing webhooks
- How to test post-receive webhook calls from your repo
Repos
- Deleting a repo
- How to remove a repo from your GitHub account
- Moving a repo
- How to move a repo from one account to another
- Removing sensitive data
- Dealing with accidentally committed passwords or other sensitive information
- Splitting a subpath out into a new repo
- How to generate a new repo from a subpath, retaining history.
- Working with subtree merge
- How to use subtree merge to merge one repo into another as a subpath.
Everyday git
- Working with remotes
- Pushing, fetching, merging and deleting remote branches
- Ignoring files
- How to tell git to ignore files
- All your rebase
- Using git rebase to restructure a branch
Collaborating
- Forking a project
- How to fork a project, submit changes, and pull from other repos in the fork network
- Post-Receive Hooks
- Working with GitHub's post-receive web hooks.
- Testing webhooks
- How to test post-receive webhook calls from your repo
- Managing multiple clients
- How to manage multiple clients and their repositories
Deploying
- Understanding deploy keys
- Do you need a deploy key?
- Deploying with Capistrano
- How to set up capistrano to pull from a GitHub repo
Mac
- Installing git (OSX)
- How to install git on OSX
- Generating SSH keys (OSX)
- Setting up SSH keys on Mac OSX
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
- Textmate
- How to use Textmate as your git editor
Windows
- Generating SSH keys (Win/msysgit)
- Setting up SSH keys with msysgit on Windows
- Working with SSH key passphrases
- SSH key passphrases, why you should use them, and how to avoid re-entering them
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
Linux
- Generating SSH keys (Linux)
- Setting up SSH keys on Linux
- Dealing with line endings
- How to ensure that line endings are consistent in your repo
Other
- Userscripts and Bookmarklets
- Various bits of code to enhance and personalize GitHub
- GitHub API
- Multiple SSH keys
- How to push using different SSH keys on the same computer