How to use git to get just the latest revision of a project?
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Solution
Use `git clone` with the `--depth` option set to `1` to create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the latest commit.
For example:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/user/repo.git
To also initialize and update any nested submodules, also pass `--recurse-submodules` and to clone them shallowly, also pass `--shallow-submodules`.
For example:
git clone --depth 1 --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules https://github.com/user/repo.git
Problem
I don't want to clone the full repository and I'm not going to be submitting patches. I do want to easily get new revisions in the future. I have tried using `git clone`, but this creates a copy of the entire repository (huge file size) and tracking changes makes the disk space even bigger (100mb of files now takes up over 2gb). Is this possible?