The depth command may not be doing what you expected, rather it's doing what
a moment's thought may indicate.
It is going back along ALL the branches that depth count, so all it takes is
for one branch to have been a bit stale and link back to somewher deep in
history and there you have it, a mega tree being downloaded.
At least that's my simplistic view of the depth issue (it can go the other
way when someone has advanced a branch father than the requested depth and
then when you request an update you get a gap because you haven't fully
spanned their work).
Have a look to se if there is a --since option in you version. I think it
got implemented.
If you are local to the repo, also try the bundle command which does allow
since, and avoids the e-transport overhead in favour of 'sneakernet' ;-)
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From: "Redoubts Redoubts" <redou...@gmail.com>
To: "Git for human beings" <git-users@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 6:05 PM
Subject: [git-users] Shallow clone not shallow enough
I'm trying to get a handle on a large repo (years old, 20k commits, >1GB),
and I'm noticing weird behavior when I take shallow clones above a certain
depth.
When I do `git clone --mirror --depth 10` or so, I get the expected
behavior of a nice shallow copy. When I try a depth of around 40, I
noticed
it cloned 100 commits instead, and the disk-size approached half the size
of the full repo. I know for certain there wasn't much large-file churn
around the time, so this result is surprising. I was hoping for a more
compact copy of 2 weeks of history. Is there a better way to achieve this?
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