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copied!<p>As I explain in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18112966/how-to-delete-purge-remove-all-history-commits-references-branches-from-a-remote/18113182#18113182">this answer</a> to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/18112966/456814">Delete or remove all history, commits, and branches from a remote Git repo?</a>, you can also achieve the same thing as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5363857/clean-out-remote-git-repo-delete-all-files-but-not-the-repo-itself/5363971#5363971">Ceilingfish's answer</a> (i.e. delete all references/branches/tags in the remote repo) by doing the following:</p> <ol> <li><p>Create new empty repo with initial commit:</p> <pre><code>mkdir new cd new echo "This is the README" > README.md git init git add . git commit -m "Add README.md (initial commit)" </code></pre></li> <li><p>Add remote repo as origin:</p> <pre><code>git remote add origin <url-to-remote> </code></pre></li> <li><p>Mirror push to remote:</p> <pre><code>git push origin --mirror </code></pre></li> </ol> <p>That will <strong><em>delete all references/branches/tags in your remote repo</em></strong>, and any dangling commits will probably be garbage collected eventually. From the <a href="https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html" rel="noreferrer">official Linux Kernel Git documentation for <code>git push</code></a> (emphasis mine):</p> <blockquote> <pre><code>--mirror </code></pre> <p>Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all refs under <code>refs/</code> (which includes but is not limited to <code>refs/heads/</code>, <code>refs/remotes/</code>, and <code>refs/tags/</code>) be mirrored to the remote repository. Newly created local refs will be pushed to the remote end, locally updated refs will be force updated on the remote end, and <strong><em>deleted refs will be removed from the remote end</em></strong>.</p> </blockquote>

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