Eric Wong wrote: > Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This is actually really fast if you already have a local copy of the >> repository with most objects. Try this yourself if you have >> torvalds/linux.git locally: >> >> git clone --bare -s torvalds/linux.git test > > Yep, -s (--shared) makes cloning really cheap. One of my goals is to get > > git clone -s https://example.com/torvalds/linux.git > > and > > git clone -s https://example.com/torvalds/linux.git/clone.bundle > > working. That would make it easier for new contributors to > setup lightweight clones and pull in history on an as-needed > basis w/o hacks like shallow cloning. Does "git clone --filter=blob:none" do what you're looking for? Thanks, Jonathan