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Sometimes, when we work on a Tutorial, we want to wipe out our Project repository on GitHub and restart. Doing it from command line is easy and fast.

Let's say your username on GitHub is "`username`" and you want to reset the project "`my-project`". Open a console and do the following:

# Delete your current project

```sh
$ ls -a
.   ..   my-project
$ rm -rf my-project
```
⚠ Performing `rm -rf` from within your project directory will not work as it does not remove the hidden files and directories.

# Reinitialize an empty Git Repository

```sh
$ mkdir my-project
$ cd my-project
my-project$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/username/projects/my-project/.git/
my-project$ git status
On branch master
No commits yet
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
```

# Link to GitHub

```sh
my-project$ git remote add origin git@github.com:username/my-project.git
my-project$ git remote -v
origin  git@github.com:username/my-project.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:username/my-project.git (push)
```

# Force PUSH the new Repository

```sh
my-project$ touch README.md # 🅰
my-project$ git add .
my-project$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
[master (root-commit) b17b424] Initial commit
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README.md
my-project$ git push -uf origin master # 🅱
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 213 bytes | 213.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To github.com:username/my-project.git
 + ed755d5...b17b424 master -> master (forced update)
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
```

A few remarks:

🅰 You have to commit at least one file before you can push your repository to Git.

🅱 The flags we use when pushing are to force the reset of our repository on GitHub (`-f`) and to set the remote `origin` as default (`-u`). After you run this comment, you will be able to push using just `git push`.

# Bash script

If you reset repositories a lot, you may want to create a bash script for this:

<br />

<div class="pull-right"><sup>`reset_git.sh</sup></div>
```bash
#!/bin/bash  
echo "GitHub Repository Reset"
echo "GitHub username?"
read username
echo "GitHub repository?"
read repository
mkdir $repository
cd $repository
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:$username/$repository.git
touch README.md
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push -uf origin master
echo "Repository $repository for User $username has been reset!"
```

We deliberately didn't include the deletion (`rm -rf $repository`) inside the bash script considering this to be too dangerous.

So, after you change the execution permission on the script (`chmod +x reset_git.sh`) you may run it as:

```sh
$ rm -rf my-project
$ ./reset_git.sh
GitHub Repository Reset
GitHub username?
username
GitHub repository?
my-project
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/username/my-project/.git/
[master (root-commit) 8d7d600] Initial commit
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README.md
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 214 bytes | 214.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To github.com:username/my-project.git
 + 479bc7e...8d7d600 master -> master (forced update)
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Repository my-project for User username has been reset!
```