It doesn't make much sense to remove all .gitignore files just to explain users that they should create those files if they want to manage their website using a Git repository.
@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ composer require --no-update \
"picocms/pico-theme ^$VERSION_MILESTONE" \
"picocms/pico-deprecated ^$VERSION_MILESTONE"
-echo "Removing '.git' directory and '.gitignore' file..."
-rm -f .gitignore
+echo "Removing '.git' directory..."
rm -rf .git
echo "Removing '.git' directories of dependencies..."