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I just created a new project in Xcode 4 and I guess I left the "Create local git repository for this project" box checked. Now, I would like to remove this version control since I want to run the project with svn only. Is this possible or do I have to create a new project from scratch?

pajevic
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I had the same problem. Here are the steps to resolving this.

  1. Go to the Organizer (under window menu option)
  2. Go to Repositories
  3. Look at the bottom left corner for the minus button
  4. Select the project to be removed from GIT
  5. Press the minus icon
  6. It should be removed

This works, even though the class files still have the symbol next to them. Clicking them then clicking another file gets rid of the icon.

Hope this works.

Jjack
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    I had already tried this. However, when I restart Xcode the repository gets recreated. Wonder if it is the same for you... – pajevic Apr 03 '11 at 08:49
  • Mine works perfectly, but I did save the files after I removed the repository. – Jjack Apr 03 '11 at 12:13
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    This + Shivan's suggestion only work if you want NO git control. If you're like me, and just want clean/logical command line or GUI control (versus Xcode's svn-like approach to git integration), you'll have to use a more nuclear option (like killing the git plugin for Xcode) unfortunately. – Eric G Apr 04 '12 at 16:31
  • Same for me, it gets recreated, and I already removed the .git folder. – Ramy Al Zuhouri Jul 21 '13 at 13:16
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Just remove the .git directory in the project folder. You should close the project in Xcode first to be safe.

Firoze Lafeer
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  • Hey, thanx for the answer. However, when I did this I couldn't open the project again. I just got the "No Editor" message in an empty pane. I have now decided not to waste more time and created a new project and moved everything. – pajevic Apr 03 '11 at 08:51
  • Huh, strange, I just tried it myself and it worked fine. Of course, the repo is still listed in the Organizer, but you can just remove it there afterwards. But the project itself opened fine for me. I wonder what happened in your case. – Firoze Lafeer Apr 03 '11 at 14:12
  • I did this and it worked fine. Anyway the right side, there's a section "Source Control" which indicates green dot and git information. It's still there. How can I get rid of this? – haxpor Dec 12 '13 at 12:36
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If you want to disable Git support in Xcode 4 you'll have to rename "/Developer/Library/Xcode/PrivatePlugIns/IDEGit.ideplugin" to something other than .ideplugin.

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    I tried that, but Xcode now throws an error and says it needs to be reinstalled. Is there some kind of plugin registry where I need to change something else? – Arne Oct 17 '11 at 20:23
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    Yea this doesn't work as of Xcode 4.2.1, and unfortunately they still haven't added any option to disable git within the preferences pane, so I'm once again forced to cope with apple's version control bugs. – rich.e Nov 20 '11 at 09:07
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    I was able to defeat this by moving the real plugin out of the way, copying IDESubversion.ideplugin to IDEGit.ideplugin, and then editing to the Info.plist to have the identifier that the original Git plugin had. – ipmcc Dec 24 '11 at 18:12
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    @rich.e: +1. Apples' QA sucks. They should fire the entire bunch and start over (that's if they have a QA department) – jww Jan 06 '13 at 07:05
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I had the same problem. I followed the steps from this blog post and all worked fine for me. I was using Xcode 4.2 on OS X 10.7.3.

I think the trick is making sure to delete the invisible ".git" folder in the project directory via the command line,... in addition to deleting the repositories via the Xcode GUI.

I'm now using SourceTree with Mercurial on BitBucket, and am a very happy camper! :-)

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cesar
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You can easily do that using 

rm -rf .git
rm -rf .gitignore
Hemang Pandya
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nithinreddy
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Open Terminal and Type

Terminal

$ cd /RootOfProjectFile
$ rm -rf .git 
$ rm -rf .gitignore

Manual Delete

Open Terminal and type

$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
$ killall Finder

simply open the project in finder delete the .git and .gitignore from root/ (Where project file is present)

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