On 4/25/24 10:00 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Is there some way to cajole 'git clone' into using less memory, with a
> '--depth 1' or similar options? Cloning shallowly would clone Gnulib a
> lot faster, if you're cloning from a remote repository.
Maybe '--single-branch' would help too. If space is really desperate
the snapshots on gitweb are pretty small.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=648aeb575db7af9ddd51cf17d1b56ee91e9ef3c5
7.6 MB for me vs. my full clone
$ du -s --human-readable .git
114M .git
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