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== Clone remote repository using local cache ==
Let's say you want a new clone of a git repository, for example <code>https://go.googlesource.com/go</code>, but you already have it cloned elsewhere, say <code>$HOME/go</code> and you don't want to download all the objects from the internet, yet you don't want to clone the local repository either — you want the new clone to be connected to the remote repository.
You can do this:
git clone --reference-if-able $HOME/go --dissociate https://go.googlesource.com/go go.test
This will work even if <code>$HOME/go</code> doesn't exist.
== References ==
* [https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone git-clone(1)]
== Only clone a specific branch ==
git clone --single-branch -b release-branch.go1.17 https://go.googlesource.com/go go.test
And if you don't want tags either:
git clone --single-branch -b release-branch.go1.17 --no-tags https://go.googlesource.com/go go.test
Let's say you want a new clone of a git repository, for example <code>https://go.googlesource.com/go</code>, but you already have it cloned elsewhere, say <code>$HOME/go</code> and you don't want to download all the objects from the internet, yet you don't want to clone the local repository either — you want the new clone to be connected to the remote repository.
You can do this:
git clone --reference-if-able $HOME/go --dissociate https://go.googlesource.com/go go.test
This will work even if <code>$HOME/go</code> doesn't exist.
== References ==
* [https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone git-clone(1)]
== Only clone a specific branch ==
git clone --single-branch -b release-branch.go1.17 https://go.googlesource.com/go go.test
And if you don't want tags either:
git clone --single-branch -b release-branch.go1.17 --no-tags https://go.googlesource.com/go go.test