Ah! Yes. No reason why you couldn’t. It would require making a new repo, copying the files into the new repo, and committing in one big commit before pushing to gitlab, but yeah. Definitely doable.
(I basically always do this myself. I don’t start the Git repo until I want to Open Source it. So when I first Open Source it, it’s a “complete” (or at least “minimum-viable-product”) project and there’s only one commit. Every commit I make and push thereafter is public, but there aren’t any from before my first push/publish.)
No, I meant that I wanted to hide old commit history.
Ah! Yes. No reason why you couldn’t. It would require making a new repo, copying the files into the new repo, and committing in one big commit before pushing to gitlab, but yeah. Definitely doable.
(I basically always do this myself. I don’t start the Git repo until I want to Open Source it. So when I first Open Source it, it’s a “complete” (or at least “minimum-viable-product”) project and there’s only one commit. Every commit I make and push thereafter is public, but there aren’t any from before my first push/publish.)
It’s worth noting that you can rewrite history after the fact with Git
…if you hate anyone who might have a clone that they want to pull to later.
Force push main with one giant squash commit.
You can always just reset your git history:
$ git reset [your first commit hash] $ git add . $ got commit -m "Collapse git history" $ git push -fYou’d have to collapse all branches not just one, and remove all tags, in order to clear the whole graph.
And of course you have to be allowed to – GitHub can have protected branches, protected tags, and force push protection.
Assuming you’re the repo owner and can do all that it still would’t affect other people’s already existing clones, only new clones.