📃Git Clone without Ancestry

My website, https://codingindex.xyz is run on GitHub pages. Whenever I write a blog post and push to the repository, a GitHub actions pulls that new blog post, does some processing, and publishes the resulting static site in the same repository.

Needless to say, this means that the repository is huge. Hence, on a new computer, it isn't really wise to clone the entire repository, because there is just no need to maintain ancestry.

Luckily, git has a way to clone without getting every single commit since the project started: git clone <git url> --depth=1 --single-branch. When doing git log, you will see that the latest commit has become grafted, which lets your repository pretend that it doesn't have parents past the latest commit (source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27296188/what-exactly-is-a-grafted-commit-in-a-shallow-clone).