Follow these steps to create plain vanilla codebase for your project. This is useful when launching a new Site Factory project, or perhaps you just want to test out some functionality using (not much more) than Drupal core.
Navigate to your preferred ~/Projects directory. Use Acquia CLI to download Drupal and create a new project. If you already have a git repo you this project as a separate branch to keep things tidy and separate from any existing work.
cd ~/Projects
acli new
When prompted, you will select option [0] for the acquia/drupal-recommended-project
.