You can clone repositories without the whole history
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This post is part of my Today I learned series in which I share all my learnings regarding web development.
I was browsing electron boilerplates today and inside of the electron-react-boilerplate I found something interesting. The getting started guide include a git clone --depth=1.
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate.git your-project-name
What's that? I tried it immediatelly.
/tmp 😩 🐿 😪
▶ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate.git your-project-name
Cloning into 'your-project-name'...
...
/tmp 😋 😦 🐍
▶ cd your-project-name
/tmp/your-project-name 😏 😝 😷 master ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ
▶ git lg
* 586b84f Amila Welihinda - (grafted, HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Misc code style changes to menu.js (5 weeks ago)
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That's interesting! The git history now only includes the latest commit which makes total sense for a boilerplate.
I'll let you decide if that's a real use case though, because I personally would remove the .git folder and start with a proper "Initial commit" but yeah. ¯_(ツ)_/¯