From: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:23:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Shallow clone of a specific git revision?
Message-ID: <87wmh7ig98.fsf@iotcl.com>
In-Reply-To: <ZzNJGHMlxGQyFV_c@kitsune.suse.cz>

Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Looking through clone man page it supports shallow clones of branches
> and tags only.
>
> Would it be possible to do shallow clone of a specific revision,
> and checkout specific revision on clone?

Hi Michal,

I'm working on a patch, and I've submitted a first version [1] a little
while ago to allow users to pass a reference on git-clone(1). Would this
change fit your needs, or what else would you like to support?

--
Toon



[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240927085438.1010431-1-toon@iotcl.com/