[PATCH v4 3/4] gitfaq: shallow cloning a repository
From: Shourya Shukla <hidden>
Date: 2020-04-29 09:38:43
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Add issue in 'Common issue' section which covers issues with cloning large repositories. Use partial cloning to selectively clone the repository. Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <redacted> --- I wanted to ask why is there no mention of partial cloning in the 'git-clone' documentation? Is it because it is an experimental feature? Documentation/gitfaq.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
index 7d294306f9..6f32846e3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt@@ -243,6 +243,16 @@ I want to change the remote of my repository. How do I do that?:: One can list the remotes of a repository using `git remote -v` command. The default name of a remote is 'origin'. +[[shallow-cloning]] +The repository I am trying to clone is too big. Is there an alternative +way of cloning it in lesser space?:: + A good way to save up space when cloning a repository is + by using `partial clones`. A partial clone will clone the + full history of the repository but will skip out the entities + specified by the `--filter` option one uses in `git clone`. + Any entity which has not been cloned to save space can be cloned + on-demand. See linkgit:partial-clone[1]. + Hooks -----
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