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A comment on Ask HN: How can I browse public GitHub repos on 128kbps connection?.

Re:Ask HN: How can I browse public GitHub repos on 128kbps c... by Rounin on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:23AM (#43137764)
Perhaps something like this to get just one commit with no large files: git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:limit=100k
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Re:Ask HN: How can I browse public GitHub repos on 128kbps c... by Rounin on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:31AM (#43137801)
For looking at the commit history rather than the files, apparently one can use git-ls-remote .
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