Adding a disable git flag in Create Next App (vercel#68821)

packages/create-next-app/README.md

@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ Options:
 
     Explicitly tell the CLI to skip installing packages
 
+  --disable-git
+
+    Explicitly tell the CLI to skip initializing a git repository.
+
   --yes
 
     Use previous preferences or defaults for all options that were not

packages/create-next-app/create-app.ts

@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 /* eslint-disable import/no-extraneous-dependencies */
+import retry from 'async-retry'
 import { copyFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync } from 'node:fs'
 import { basename, dirname, join, resolve } from 'node:path'
-import retry from 'async-retry'
-import { red, green, cyan } from 'picocolors'
+import { cyan, green, red } from 'picocolors'
 import type { RepoInfo } from './helpers/examples'
 import {
   downloadAndExtractExample,
   downloadAndExtractRepo,
-  getRepoInfo,
   existsInRepo,
+  getRepoInfo,
   hasRepo,
 } from './helpers/examples'
+import type { PackageManager } from './helpers/get-pkg-manager'
 import { tryGitInit } from './helpers/git'
 import { install } from './helpers/install'
 import { isFolderEmpty } from './helpers/is-folder-empty'
 import { getOnline } from './helpers/is-online'
 import { isWriteable } from './helpers/is-writeable'
-import type { PackageManager } from './helpers/get-pkg-manager'
 
 import type { TemplateMode, TemplateType } from './templates'
 import { getTemplateFile, installTemplate } from './templates'
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ export async function createApp({
   skipInstall,
   empty,
   turbo,
+  disableGit,
 }: {
   appPath: string
   packageManager: PackageManager
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ export async function createApp({
   skipInstall: boolean
   empty: boolean
   turbo: boolean
+  disableGit?: boolean
 }): Promise<void> {
   let repoInfo: RepoInfo | undefined
   const mode: TemplateMode = typescript ? 'ts' : 'js'
@@ -235,7 +237,10 @@ export async function createApp({
     })
   }
 
-  if (tryGitInit(root)) {
+  if (disableGit) {
+    console.log('Skipping git initialization.')
+    console.log()
+  } else if (tryGitInit(root)) {
     console.log('Initialized a git repository.')
     console.log()
   }

packages/create-next-app/index.ts

@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 /* eslint-disable import/no-extraneous-dependencies */
-import type { InitialReturnValue } from 'prompts'
-import type { PackageManager } from './helpers/get-pkg-manager'
-import Conf from 'conf'
 import ciInfo from 'ci-info'
+import { Command } from 'commander'
+import Conf from 'conf'
+import { existsSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { basename, resolve } from 'node:path'
+import { blue, bold, cyan, green, red, yellow } from 'picocolors'
+import type { InitialReturnValue } from 'prompts'
 import prompts from 'prompts'
 import updateCheck from 'update-check'
-import packageJson from './package.json'
-import { basename, resolve } from 'node:path'
-import { existsSync } from 'node:fs'
-import { Command } from 'commander'
-import { cyan, green, red, yellow, bold, blue } from 'picocolors'
 import { createApp, DownloadError } from './create-app'
+import type { PackageManager } from './helpers/get-pkg-manager'
 import { getPkgManager } from './helpers/get-pkg-manager'
 import { isFolderEmpty } from './helpers/is-folder-empty'
 import { validateNpmName } from './helpers/validate-pkg'
+import packageJson from './package.json'
 
 let projectPath: string = ''
 
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ const program = new Command(packageJson.name)
   --example-path foo/bar
 `
   )
+  .option('--disable-git', `Skip initializing a git repository.`)
   .action((name) => {
     // Commander does not implicitly support negated options. When they are used
     // by the user they will be interpreted as the positional argument (name) in
@@ -233,6 +234,7 @@ async function run(): Promise<void> {
       customizeImportAlias: false,
       empty: false,
       turbo: false,
+      disableGit: false,
     }
     const getPrefOrDefault = (field: string) =>
       preferences[field] ?? defaults[field]
@@ -428,6 +430,7 @@ async function run(): Promise<void> {
       skipInstall: opts.skipInstall,
       empty: opts.empty,
       turbo: opts.turbo,
+      disableGit: opts.disableGit,
     })
   } catch (reason) {
     if (!(reason instanceof DownloadError)) {
@@ -459,6 +462,7 @@ async function run(): Promise<void> {
       skipInstall: opts.skipInstall,
       empty: opts.empty,
       turbo: opts.turbo,
+      disableGit: opts.disableGit,
     })
   }
   conf.set('preferences', preferences)