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Is it safe to shallow clone with –depth 1, create commits, and pull updates again?

The --depth 1 option in git clone: Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions. A shallow ...

May 17, 2022
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Clone A Private Repository (Github)

I have a private repository on Github for a project I’m working on. Until now I had only worked on my home desktop, ...

May 14, 2022
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How to git-svn clone the last n revisions from a Subversion repository?

Problem How do you create a shallow copy with git-svn from a Subversion repository, e.g. how do you pull only the last three ...

May 14, 2022
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How to clone a specific Git tag

From git-clone(1) Manual Page --branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository. I tried git ...

May 10, 2022
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How to clone git repository with specific revision/changeset?

How can I clone git repository with specific revision, something like I usually do in Mercurial: hg clone -r 3 /path/to/repository 18 s ...

May 4, 2022
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What are the differences between git branch, fork, fetch, merge, rebase and clone?

I want to understand the difference between a branch, a fork and a clone in Git? Similarly, what does it mean when I ...

May 3, 2022
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What’s the difference between git clone –mirror and git clone –bare

The git clone help page has this to say about --mirror: Set up a mirror of the remote repository. This implies --bare. But ...

April 30, 2022
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How to get Git to clone into current directory

I’m doing: git clone ssh://user@host.com/home/user/private/repos/project_hub.git ./ I’m getting: Fatal: destination path ‘.’ already exists and is not an empty directory. I know path ...

April 30, 2022
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How to convert a normal Git repository to a bare one?

How can I convert a ‘normal’ Git repository to a bare one? The main difference seems to be: in the normal Git repository, ...

April 28, 2022
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Are Git forks actually Git clones?

I keep hearing people say they’re forking code in Git. Git “fork” sounds suspiciously like Git “clone” plus some (meaningless) psychological willingness to ...

April 19, 2022
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