Git: Checkout only files without repository?

Question

i\'d like to just checkout the files without the .git files and the whole repository. It\'s because i\'d like to manage a website (php & html) with git and i\'m looking

Answer 1

Git is much easier than Subversion for this, as the whole repository is held in a single directory. You only need to delete the hidden ".git" folder in the root of the project to create a production-ready copy of your site.

In Linux/OSX this would be:

mkdir dist && cd dist
git checkout --depth=1 http://path/to/your/project.git
rm -rf .git