"template repositories"?

[Jorge Vargas]

Let me explain what I want.

I have several basic layouts for projects, for example a simple
webpage with the little boilerplate all sites need to have.

I have been wondering if it's possible to have a repository to track
the boilerplate evolution and then be able to clone it to branch of a
project from it. What puzzles me is that I don't want the boilerplates
history in all my projects so I was wondering if I could just clone
the previous repo and just leaving the mark of the revision where it
branched off.

Or perhaps I should keep the revisions in place so I can pull from the
boilerplate repo any bug fixes?

Any suggestions regarding that usage pattern are appreciated.