How to Remove All Commits From a Branch

At times it’s necessary to remove all commits from a branch. This can be useful when you want to start fresh or when you want to remove all history from a branch.

Here’s how you can remove all commits from a main branch:

git checkout main
git checkout --orphan temp-branch
git add -A
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git branch -D main
git branch -m main
git push origin main --force

Links:

• How do I create a master branch in a bare Git repository?
• how to delete all commit history in github?