I have made 2 git repositores in one directory. Now I want to get rid of one of them. How do I go about that?

Question

These are the commands I used to create 2 repositories in 1 folder.

git init .
mv .git .gitone
git init .
mv .git .gittwo

Now my folder structures looks like

.gitone
.gittwo
all_other_files
.gitignore

I want to delete the second repository such that my new folder structure looks something like this

.git
all_other_files
.gitignore

I am a bit confused on how to proceed with this. I have equivalent code and commits in both repositories. Any help would be appreciated.

May I ask why you created two repositories? Which problem was that approach trying to solve? — Lasse V. Karlsen, Nov 09 '20 at 08:02
In the start of the project I thought lets have 2 repositories, one for organization I was working for and another for myself. But later realized it was a waste. I followed this [answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/436125/two-git-repositories-in-one-directory) to make 2 repositories. — Sarthak Agrawal, Nov 10 '20 at 10:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '20 at 07:58

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From purely a shell perspective:

rm -Rf .gittwo
mv .gitone .git

# Check with:
git status
git log

But having two repositories in one folder is unusual.
Any git command would have to specify its --git-dir (.gitone or .gittwo)

answered Nov 09 '20 at 07:58

VonC

Thanks, it worked. Yes its unusual to have 2 repositories in 1 folder, I was kinda experimenting. – Sarthak Agrawal Nov 10 '20 at 10:32
Experimentation is good, learning from experiments even better. Good luck on your git journey :) – Lasse V. Karlsen Nov 10 '20 at 10:37

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