Below demonstrates the difference between clone and clone --depth=1
When git trunk is recommended as a good way for users to install and run,
I think --depth=1 would be good to mention, pretty dramatic difference.

ktenney@delly:/tmp$ time git clone --depth=1
https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor
Cloning into 'leo-editor'...
remote: Counting objects: 3503, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3113/3113), done.
remote: Total 3503 (delta 410), reused 2670 (delta 319), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (3503/3503), 9.10 MiB | 154.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (410/410), done.

real    1m3.407s
user    0m2.092s
sys    0m0.940s


ktenney@delly:/tmp$ time git clone https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor
Cloning into 'leo-editor'...
remote: Counting objects: 121841, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (340/340), done.
remote: Total 121841 (delta 245), reused 203 (delta 69), pack-reused 121432
Receiving objects: 100% (121841/121841), 140.73 MiB | 170.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (94862/94862), done.

real    14m24.684s
user    1m12.704s
sys    0m12.904s


On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote:

> Somebody (Kent?) posted a git clone command that was faster than the
> typical:
>
>      git clone https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor.git
>
> I think it involved telling git there was no need to go back to the
> beginning of time, just the previous N months. Or something?
>
> matt
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