Add --depth switch?

[almereyda]

When cloning very large repositories only for testing their functionality, not all previous commits are needed. Therefore the amount of commits to be cloned can be limited with the --depth flag in git.

Implementing it (-d/--depth) and passing it on to git could greatly help to keep the file size of the projects low.

[yasuo-ozu]

today --shallow option is usable for this purpose.

[almereyda]

Thank you for this information, it hadn't occured to me to consider a shallow clone. Also the readme warns about this, if one wanted to work with it (emphasis mine):

With '--shallow' option, a "shallow clone" will be performed (for Git repositories only, 'git clone --depth 1 …​' eg.). Be careful that a shallow-cloned repository cannot be pushed to remote. Currently Git and Mercurial repositories are supported.

@lorentzleutgeb May I ask what had once led to your 👎🏽 reaction on this post? I wasn't intending any harm here. 🤷🏽