# Re: What's in git.git

- From: David Lang \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 20:16:50 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7691179
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7687999/t.md

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> [pu]
>
>  Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top
>  of 'master' although I haven't done so yet.  As he said
>  himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for
>  such a feature to raise hands.

I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I understand it to be (the ability to get a partial repository from upstream and work normally from there with the result of data-mineing tools sometimes reporting 'that's part of the truncated history' if they hit the cutoff) consider my hand raised.

there are a number of cases where I would be interested in following a project as it moves forwards, but do not have the need to have the full history (even with the good compression that a git pack provides, it's still a significant amount of disk space and download time for large projects)

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