# Publish packages without complete commit history

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/publish-packages-without-complete-commit-history/45407
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [August 23, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/publish-packages-without-complete-commit-history/45407 "2020-08-23T09:08:29Z")
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### Author: ![aplavin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aplavin/32/222056_2.png) [@aplavin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aplavin)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/publish-packages-without-complete-commit-history/45407/8 "2020-08-23T11:45:10Z")

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Interesting, thanks for the in-depth explanation!

Looks like the simplest solution that doesn’t even require any Pkg modifications is indeed making a separate repo that gets populated only when releasing a new version. With a small script I think even the commits can be preserved, erasing only their datetimes.

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