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* [https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone git-clone(1)]
 
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* [https://git-scm.com/docs/git-replace git-replace(1)]
 
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* [https://stackoverflow.com/q/59719412 Under what circumstances will git replacements be pushed/pulled?]
 
* [https://stackoverflow.com/q/59719412 Under what circumstances will git replacements be pushed/pulled?]
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* [https://stackoverflow.com/q/5724522 Creating a GitHub repository with only a subset of a local repository's history]

Latest revision as of 13:46, 20 September 2021

Clone remote repository using local cache

Let's say you want a new clone of a git repository, for example https://go.googlesource.com/go, but you already have it cloned elsewhere, say $HOME/go 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 $HOME/go doesn't exist.

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

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