Unlink git
Unlink git
Hi! You can simply remove the cloned repository folder on your MacBook. There’s no special uncloning process—just delete the directory. Regarding the server connection, if the server was added to your trusted servers list, you’ll need to unlink it. If not, you should remove that link from your trusted servers. You don’t necessarily have to clear the folder unless you want to keep a backup. As for the SSH key, deleting it will remove the authentication method tied to that key.
Just deleting the folder is fine (or if you want to keep the code, just not have it be a git repo, then you can just delete the hidden .git folder inside) - git keeps all of the relevant metadata in there. (You don't necessarily even need to delete it - cloning a repo is essentially just downloading the contents, and git doesn't do automatic background synchronization or anything like that, so other than a few kB of metadata there's not really any cost to leaving it around.) The trusted servers are stored in ~/.ssh/known_hosts. The only thing it means is that if you ever connect to that server again (via SSH or git-over-SSH) you won't be prompted to verify the server key, so there's definitely no need to clean that up. If you really want to, you can edit that file to remove the corresponding entry. If you only created the SSH key for git, not for actually SSHing into servers, then it would be safe to delete, although again not necessary to do so. It should be stored in two parts in ~/.ssh, probably called id_rsa and id_rsa.pub (although it could also be id_ecdsa and id_ecdsa.pub, or any other name). If you're absolutely sure that you didn't use that key for anything else, you can delete both those files. On the git server side, there should be a place in the server's configuration where you added your public key (unless you were just cloning a public repo, in which case you may not have needed to configure that) - you should be able to delete your public key from that config.
Great! Your question is clear, and I appreciate your feedback. I'm here to help with any further details you might need.