Question

Sometimes I clone git repo not for a development – but just for the bleeding edge version. Now I do it with

git clone --depth=1 <URL>

but back then I didn’t know it. So I have some full repos – and I would like to leave only the latest shapshot in each of them. How this can be done?

Edit:

I think that if I will do

rm -rf .git
git init
git add .
git commit

I will lose the origin source – and would not be able to git pull later.

Edit 2:

Perhaps the simplest way is just to delete the repos and

git clone --depth=1 <URL>

them again.

Answer 1

You can, more simply, clone these repositories with the same --depth=1, and copy the remote repo’s config (see .git/config file in old repo and copy relevant section to the one in your new repo.