Git Clone: Just the files, please?

Question

I want to clone a GIT repo and NOT end up with a .git directory. In other words I just want the files. Is there a way to do this?

git clone --no-chec

Answer 1

you can create a shallow clone to only get the last few revisions:

 git clone --depth 1 git://url

then either simply delete the .git directory or use git archive to export your tree.