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Git 2.8 Officially Released (softpedia.com)
prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: Git 2.8 has been released on March 28, and we have to admit that it comes as a huge surprise to us all. Prominent features of Git 2.8 include parallel fetches of submodules, which allows for the inclusion of other Git repositories in a single Git repo when using the "git submodules" command, support for turning off Git's smudge and clean filters, and support for cloning repos through the rsync protocol. The Git for Windows build received a lot of attention in Git 2.8 and it looks like it's now as comfortable to use as it is on the GNU/Linux and Mac OS X platforms. Also, it is now possible to tell Git not to guess your identity, which, instead, forces you to add a user.name and user.email before doing any commits. Check out the the full release notes for the complete list.
https://github.com/git/git/com...
There are very, very good reasons for that. Subversion suffered profoundly from the inability to delete disastrous commits with binaries, mistaken directories, and completely obsolete and deleted projects. This made re-organization of content, even into another repository, very awkward and error prone. Even CVS and professional tools like Perforce were able to completely discard idle directories. The insistence on preserving deleted content also made sanitization of repositories to clear out passwords and password history, or clearing out accidental commits of bulky binaries, very difficult.
If you need a "reference" git repository with all history, certainly create one. But few projects actually need this.