Cloning / Reading only history /log of a git repository

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Clone the repository with the --bare flag:

git clone --bare ...

A “bare” repository in Git just contains the version control
information and no working files (no tree) and it doesn’t contain the
special .git sub-directory. Instead, it contains all the contents of
the .git sub-directory directly in the main directory itself.

Read more in the documentation on it, or this helpfull page about setting up server environments using the option.

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