Copy a git repo without history

You can limit the depth of the history while cloning:

--depth <depth>Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions.

Use this if you want limited history, but still some.

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Use the following command:

git clone --depth <depth> -b <branch> <repo_url>

Where:

depth is the amount of commits you want to include. i.e. if you just want the latest commit use git clone --depth 1
branch is the name of the remote branch that you want to clone from. i.e. if you want the last 3 commits from master branch use git clone --depth 3 -b master
repo_url is the url of your repository

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Deleting the .git folder is probably the easiest path since you don't want/need the history (as Stephan said).

git clone <git_url>

then delete .git, and afterwards run

git init

Follow the above steps then:

git add .git commit -m "Initial commit"

Push to your repo.

git remote add origin <github-uri>git push -u --force origin master

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