is there any way to fetch only history? Sometimes repositories are big and it takes very long period of time to download it.
I don't need a files, i just need to look for commits history with git log and git show.
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What do you mean by "fetch only commits history"? How is this different from what Git does by default? (Consider: If you can look at a repository's history you have the contents of every revision.)Chris– Chris2016-12-17 14:17:20 +00:00Commented Dec 17, 2016 at 14:17
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Does this answer your question? Is there a way to git fetch and only get the history - no filesTimmmm– Timmmm2024-05-15 21:31:22 +00:00Commented May 15, 2024 at 21:31
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No you can't.
In Git repositories, commits and files are managed separately. So it should be possible to implement a feature to fetch only commits, but such a feature is not implemented yet.
Note that a commit in a repository includes only information git show -q <commit> shows.
So, if such a feature would be implemented, you can't see diffs or so in a repository fetched by the feature.
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No if you want to see all the history locally, you will need to clone all changes.
You just can do so in a bare repo (git clone --bare) in order to not checkout the default branch HEAD.
But that won't mean downloading less data: only a shallow clone would download less, but that would mean a partial history.
