[PATCH v5 3/4] gitfaq: shallow cloning a repository

From

Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>

Date

May 4, 2020, 05:42 UTC

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<20200504054223.11125-3-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>

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<20200504054223.11125-1-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
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I fixed the heading of this section and improved it overall though,
as pointed out by Junio, there is a bit confusion as to what URL I
am trying to point to:
https://git-scm.com/docs/partial-clone
This is the URL I want to point to.

 Documentation/gitfaq.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
index 875cfa0acd..5dfbb32089 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
@@ -244,6 +244,17 @@ 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'.
 
+[[partial-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 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 (hence this
+	presumes that the user has an always-on network connection to the
+	original repository).  See linkgit:partial-clone[1].
+
 Hooks
 -----
 

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