How to safely and completely delete a fork project on GitHub

GitHub is one of the largest Git code hosting platforms in the world. It provides the open source community with a very good platform for sharing code. On GitHub, we can easily fork other people's code repositories and carry out secondary development or improvements based on them. However, as the code repository continues to grow, we often need to delete fork projects that are no longer used or unnecessary to keep our accounts clean and organized. This article will explain how to safely and completely delete a fork project on GitHub.

1. Delete the fork warehouse

First, we need to find the fork warehouse that needs to be deleted in our GitHub warehouse list. In the upper right corner of the warehouse page, click the "Settings" button to enter the warehouse settings page.

At the bottom of the page, there is a "Danger Zone" area, which contains two dangerous operations: deleting the warehouse and transferring the warehouse. We select the "Delete repository" option.

GitHub will ask us if we confirm to delete the repository, and we need to confirm again. Before confirming the deletion, we recommend backing up your important data in the warehouse to avoid being unable to retrieve it after misoperation.

2. Remove the fork repository from your own repository list

Although we have deleted the fork repository, it will remain in our GitHub repository list. In order to delete it completely, we need to manually remove the repository in our GitHub repository list.

In the GitHub repository list, find the fork repository you want to delete and click the "Remove" button to the right of it. Confirm the deletion at the prompt to remove the forked repository from our GitHub repository list.

3. Clear the local fork repository

Although we have completely deleted the fork repository from GitHub, our local clone still exists. In order to clear the local fork repository, we need to run the following command in the terminal or command line:

git remote -v

This command will display the list of remote repositories associated with the Git repository in the current directory. We need to find the list of remote repositories associated with the Git repository to be deleted. The remote warehouse address corresponding to the fork warehouse, usually "origin".

Next, we use the following command to delete it from the local:

git remote rm <remote-name>

Where, <remote-name> is the name of the remote warehouse to be deleted, that is Usually "origin".

After these steps, we have successfully deleted the fork warehouse from GitHub and locally. It should be noted that deleting a fork repository will permanently delete all code, commit records, and branch information, so before deleting, you need to think twice to ensure that the repository is no longer needed.

Summary

How to safely and completely delete fork projects on GitHub, this article introduces the following three steps:

1. Delete fork repository
2. Remove the fork warehouse from your own warehouse list
3. Clear the local fork warehouse

It should be reminded that you need to be particularly careful when deleting the fork warehouse, and you need to confirm every step , to avoid irreparable losses caused by misoperation. At the same time, we should also develop good code usage habits and promptly delete fork repositories that are no longer used to keep our GitHub account clean and orderly.

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