As long as you get all of the files, I don’t think you really need the history.
But for what it’s worth, the whole site should only be about 250 MB. If it’s taking a long time to download, I’d wonder if something is broken or reconfigured.
actually I am getting confused all the time over this. Since I forked the repo, and after that the original repo keeps on moving ahead (* commits ahead). How can I keep my local repo on PC to be always updated to the original one? Will doing this work (https://webkul.com/blog/syncing-local-repository-with-remote-repository-on-github/)
I’m not really a git expert, but I think generally you need to pull whenever you want to get new changes. When I’ve used git before, I’ve started most of my coding sessions with a pull.
But also, it’s not the end of the world to be a few commits behind, especially if you’re not planning on touching the same files as I am.
Out of curiosity, what are you planning on doing with a local copy of the repo?
If you’re on Windows, I’ve found that the GitHub desktop client works pretty well:
On the other hand it tends to hide what’s going on behind the UI, so if your goal is to learn more about git, then you might be better off using the command line.