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Asked: 2026-06-10T20:31:51+00:00

I’m experimenting with some githooks , so I have setup a local bare repository

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I’m experimenting with some githooks, so I have setup a local bare repository with a symlink from hooks to the hooks stored elsewhere.

I have pushed the master branch to the git repo and, of course, the hook failed. 🙂

I want to reset the git repo to nothing, without deleting it and having to recreate the symlink etc.

How do I delete the master branch, seeing as it is the only branch in the repository?

$ git branch -d master
error: Cannot delete the branch 'master' which you are currently on.
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  1. Editorial Team

    To remove the master ref, use git update-ref -d refs/heads/master.

    Why shouldn’t you rm /refs/heads/master?

    packed-refs could exist, so rm sometimes doesn’t work as expected.

    BTW, what’s the point to reset if you could just create a new empty repo instead? Just use git init --bare repo.git.

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