Honestly, the proper command is not rm at all, because you can then have an "oh shit I forgot something" moment. I have learned (the hard way) to retain even a

Honestly, the proper command is not rm at all, because you can then have an "oh shit I forgot something" moment. I have learned (the hard way) to retain even an horribly broken repo, but shove it out of the way. Because disk is cheap, repeating work is expensive. So that example should have been: cd .. mv fucking-git-repo-dir fucking-git-repo-dir.archived.$(date +%s) git clone https://some.github.url/fucking-git-repo-dir.git