There are many ways to clone a repository without its history.
The cleanest way is, no doubt, starting from fresh by deleting the .git folder and creating a new one with:
rm -rf .git
git init
Nevertheless, for small scaffolding project I use, I’d prefer using this command:
git clone --depth 1 reponame.git
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