From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:06:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there a way to trim old SHAs from a git tree (so it's not so large)?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611212306060.26827@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45637457.1010505@freescale.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Shawn Pearce wrote:
> 
> > finally you can either run from that directory (see INSTALL file)
> > or you can install the binary somewhere else.  We don't really
> > recommend using `pu` for production level work, so make sure you
> > have a backup of any repository you run it on.  :)
> 
> So how do I make a shallow clone?  I've set it all up, but there is no
> git-shallow-clone command, and git help clone doesn't have anything either.

Try "git clone --depth 1 <url>". This will cut each ancestor chain after 
one ancestor (IIRC).

Ciao,
Dscho