Copy a git repo without history

Question

I have a private repository on GitHub that I want to make public  However  some of the initial commits contain information that I don t want to publicize  hard-coded credentials  etc   What is the easiest route to make the latest commit public  I don t really need or want the previous commits in the public repository  without including some or all of the commit history

User · Answer

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.

User · Answer

Deleting the  git folder is probably the easiest path since you don t want need the history  as Stephan said    So you can create a new repo from your latest commit   How to clone seed kick-start project without the whole history    git clone  lt git url gt    then delete  git  and afterwards run  git init   Or if you want to reuse your current repo  Make the current commit the only  initial  commit in a Git repository   Follow the above steps then   git add   git commit -m  Initial commit    Push to your repo   git remote add origin  lt github-uri gt  git push -u --force origin master

User · Answer

Use the following command   git clone --depth  lt depth gt  -b  lt branch gt   lt repo url gt    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

User · Answer

Isn t this exactly what squashing a rebase does    Just squash everything except the last commit and then  force  push it

User · Answer

bin bash set -e    Settings user xxx pass xxx dir xxx repo src xxx repo trg xxx src branch xxx  repo base url https    user  pass bitbucket org  user repo src url  repo base url  repo src git repo trg url  repo base url  repo trg git  echo  Clone Source     git clone --depth 1 -b  src branch  repo src url  dir  echo  CD  cd    dir  echo  Remove GIT  rm -rf  git  echo  Init GIT  git init git add   git commit -m  Initial Commit  git remote add origin  repo trg url  echo  Push     git push -u origin master

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