How to revert initial git commit?

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You just need to delete the branch you are on. You can’t use git branch -D as this has a safety check against doing this. You can use update-ref to do this.

git update-ref -d HEAD

Do not use rm -rf .git or anything like this as this will completely wipe your entire repository including all other branches as well as the branch that you are trying to reset.

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