Git clone without downloading files

 · In fact, git-lfs already made git repo thiner and lighter, I wonder if we can cloning repo without downloading the real files, 'cause the files we want to let git-lfs handle should be binaries or other large and static files, we may not need to edit them all, so if we can just leave them as pointers, I think it'll be awesome!  · Obs: for "Windows", use the following two commands: set GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY. (2) Configuring the git-lfs smudge: git config --global bltadwin.ru "git-lfs smudge --skip -- %f" git config --global bltadwin.rus "git-lfs filter-process --skip" git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY. To undo this configuration, execute.  · git clone --filter=tree:0 creates a treeless clone. These clones download all reachable commits while fetching trees and blobs on-demand. These clones are best for build environments where the repository will be deleted after a single build, but you still need access to commit history. git clone --depth=1 creates a shallow clone. These clones truncate the commit history .

git clone -b . Here -b is just an alias for --branch. With this, you fetch all the branches in the repository, checkout to the one you specified, and the specific branch becomes the configured local branch for git push and git pull. But you still fetched all files from each branch. Thus, git log (without a path) and git merge-base are available, but commands like git log -- and git blame are extremely slow and not recommended in these clones. Blobless clones contain all reachable commits and trees, so Git downloads blobs when it needs access to file contents. In the first article in this series on getting started with Git, we created a simple Git repo and added a file to it by connecting it with our computer. In this article, we will learn a handful of other things about Git, namely how to clone (download), modify, add, and delete files in a Git repo.

Obs: for "Windows", use the following two commands: set GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY. (2) Configuring the git-lfs smudge: git config --global bltadwin.ru "git-lfs smudge --skip -- %f" git config --global bltadwin.rus "git-lfs filter-process --skip" git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY. To undo this configuration, execute. but I have not found any way how to clone repo without downloading all content (files) I have tried - install without downloading git lfs install --skip-smudge - export GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone ssh://[email protected]/vrt/ bltadwin.ru - git clone -c "bltadwin.ruxclude=*" ssh://.git - git lfs clone --exclude="*" ssh://.git - git clone --no-checkout ssh://.git - git -c bltadwin.ru= -c bltadwin.rued=false lfs clone ssh://.git also see bltadwin.ru Questions: Is it possible to get the tags / references of a repository (eg GitHub) without downloading objects / files? My use case is in packaging the latest beta release of some software which has a long history and is therefore large to clone.