Make the current commit the only (initial) commit in a Git repository?

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Here’s the brute-force approach. It also removes the configuration of the repository.

Note: This does NOT work if the repository has submodules! If you are using submodules, you should use e.g. interactive rebase

Step 1: remove all history (Make sure you have backup, this cannot be reverted)

cat .git/config  # note <github-uri>
rm -rf .git

Step 2: reconstruct the Git repo with only the current content

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"

Step 3: push to GitHub.

git remote add origin <github-uri>
git push -u --force origin main

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