Andrew, Shallow clone (if that's what you meant) is not suitable because it doesn't allow to push/pull to/from this shallow repository. I understand that generally git is designed to preserve the history. But the problem is real, and probably is not unique to our project. The fact that there ARE some ways to modify history (collapse commits, rebase, filter-branch) made me hopeful that what I need is also possible.. thanks, Stas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html