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Option --no-git

See original GitHub issue

Is your proposal related to a problem?

Create react app starts with a git repository, but I wish I could start a react app with no git startup

Describe the solution you’d like

When starting a react app with CRA and a flag (ex: --no-git), do not start a git repository.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:60
Comments:14 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

42reactions

vyolbiuscommented, Nov 26, 2020

Should add this option.

27reactions

mxdi9i7commented, Jan 30, 2021

Should definitively add this option.

I feel like its not that common of a case and people doing this probably know enough to remove the .git folder in the newly created project.

This is not a reason to not add this feature, this is like saying “since people know enough to manually append/edit commit messages, we shouldn’t need -m flag for git commit”

Another argument would be for popular libraries like express-generator we have the option to omit git repo on project initialization. This should be a standard option for any bootstrapping library.

On Windows machines that doesn’t use bash, the remove folder recursively command isn’t that straight forward, this could create a headache for windows users who need to put in lots of time to look up how to remove git submodules.