Re: Is there a way to control the number of revisions will be saved by git

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:58:40AM -0800, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Or just use shallow clone

  git clone --depth <depth> <repository>

to have new copy (clone) of <repository> to have only <depth> commits
back.  See man git-commit; but it might be not what you want.

You mean man git-clone?

This trick can be used only once, since you can't clone a shallow clone.