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Save harddrive space by using git shallow clones

Sometime you clone starter projects, libraries, or plugins to help you get started on a new project or POC.

Perhaps you are using git clone to get your project on a remote server.

When you clone a project what you also get is all the previous states of that repository at each commit. This can add up fast and take a good chunk of your hard drive space as well as take long to download and decompress.

To solve this you can clone a shallow copy of the repository by using the depth switch on the git clone command, and providing it with the value of 1.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dkarter/bullets.vim
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