Cloning / Reading only history /log of a git repository

Question

Within a localy cloned git repository i can watch the history with

git log

In a small tool i do only need the history of a repository, no

Answer 1

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.