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Re:Git Is Simpler Than You Think by adobriyan on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @04:48PM (#2971373)
git-clone --depth 1
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Re:Git Is Simpler Than You Think by prodigal_erik on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @08:53PM (#2972161)
Shallow clones are essentially read-only, they can't push nor be fetched from. Unless you're prepared to regress to emailing patches around, a shallow git clone is actually less useful than a svn checkout.
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Re:Git Is Simpler Than You Think by mkl on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @08:59PM (#2972175)
Shallow clones don't seem to save much space: http://blogs.gnome.org/simos/2009/04/18/git-clones-vs-shallo...
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