On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 12:33:08PM +0300, Дилян Палаузов wrote: > Rationale: > > The reason people execute git clone is hardly to issue immediately > afterwards git log or git annotate. The reason for git clone is to (try > changing something and then) build the software. (Provided that git manages > source code.) Doing by default a reduced data download with git clone > will sped up the initialization, it will save bytes in transit and reduce > server load. In fact I think that by default (without extra configuration) > git clone should do a reduced download (blobless) and git should download > the other things, when asked to do so. This default download preference > should be ideally managed by an option in global gitconfig . When looking > at https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config for “filter” I do not recognize > anything relevant. As a counter-rationale, shallow clones generate a lot more load on the server side, because there are no packs available for this operation. Making this the default behaviour will likely result in slower clones for everyone and more unavailable servers due to high load. -K
