Adding a disable git flag in Create Next App

[Arinji2]

Goals

1. Adding an optional flag resembling something --disable-git in the create next app configuration

Non-Goals

No response

Background

We recently had a question in the nextjs official discord regarding disabling git on setup since they didnt use git. This felt as a valid feature which is missing from the current create-next-app package. This makes nextjs much more inclusive of people/companies which don't use git.

Proposal

I went through the code of the create-next-app package and i am pretty sure that this part is what does the actual git setup.
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/create-next-app/create-app.ts#L238

I plan on adding a flag to disable git, update that code specifically and also update the docs regarding create-next-app. If this proposal does go through i would love some tips on how to actually contribute to packages, the contributions docs dosent seem to mention running packages locally.

[joulev]

Better to prompt a yes/no question asking if the user wants to initialise Git, imo. And not send that prompt if the user is already in a Git repository.

[Arinji2]

Thing is, 99% of the times, people do want git. So it would lead to kinda an extra step. This is only for like specific cases.

[ShayokhShorfuddin]

I agree with @Arinji2 on that. A simple flag will do the job.

[ShayokhShorfuddin]

It is quite a valid suggestion. A flag will be useful when a developer doesn't intend to push code to Github.

Possible flags -
--disable-git
--no-git

[Arinji2]

I am going to start on the PR and hopefully one of the team members can guide me on any errors/developing the package :D

[Arinji2]

#68821