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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by vmiklos on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:55AM (#34464965)
FWIW, it's called a shallow clone:

https://git-scm.com/docs/shallow

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by thayne on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:00PM (#34483231)
That is yet a different concept, where it doesn't include the full history, but without a partial clone it still pulls the entire tree for the head commit.
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