From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:40:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the number of revisions will be saved by git
Message-ID: <20081203134036.GR19355@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3ljuxifer.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:58:40AM -0800, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 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.