How to use the shallow clone In GIT
This is a comparatively fast solution where we pull down only the latest commits of the repo’s history. Imagine I have a repository with 1 GB of data with more than 35000+ commits. If I choose full cloning this repository, it’s general it will take a large amount of time, but if we choose to pull only the latest n commits it can reduce our time exponentially. To perform shallow cloning we need to add –depth command with our clone command
git clone --depth [n] [url]
Here n specifies number of latest n commits
url specifies the remote url of the repository
How to Handle Big Repositories With Git?
Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git relies on the basis of distributed development of software where more than one developer may have access to the source code of a specific application and can modify changes to it that may be seen by other developers. In this article, we will learn how to handle big repositories with Git.
Table of Content
- 1. Using the shallow clone
- 2. Using git-filter
- 3. Cloning a single branch