Git - remove seed repo's history from commit history

Question

My github pages repo is based on https://github.com/maciakl/Sample-Jekyll-Site. To achieve this I cloned https://github.com/maciakl/Sample-Jekyll-Site then manually changed the origin in git config. But now my repo has all https://github.com/maciakl/Sample-Jekyll-Site's commits in its history. Is there a way I can get rid of them?

Answer 1

Clone with depth 1. This will get you the current state of the repo, without any history.

However, it is questionable if this is really what you should do - in general, the commit history contains a lot of valuable information.