Is it possible to clone a repository without git creating a .git folder inside the local copy of the repository? Sort of like a read only functionality?
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Is it possible to clone a repository without git creating a .git folder inside the local copy of the repository? Sort of like a read only functionality?
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git archive. You either use it within a repository, or pass it the--remote=<URL>switch, and it gives you a tarball or zip file of the source tree. You can pipe that straight back intotarif you want to just get a pristine copy of the tree.