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Cloning a huge repository (like a project with multiple years of history) might take a long time, or fail because of the amount of data to be transferred. In cases where you don't need to have the full history available, you can do a shallow clone: git clone [repo_url] --depth 1 The above comman...

To download the entire repository including the full history and all branches, type: git clone <url> The example above will place it in a directory with the same name as the repository name. To download the repository and save it in a specific directory, type: git clone <url> [dire...

To clone a specific branch of a repository, type --branch <branch name> before the repository url: git clone --branch <branch name> <url> [directory] To use the shorthand option for --branch, type -b. This command downloads entire repository and checks out <branch name>. ...

1.6.5 git clone <url> --recursive Clones the repository and also clones all submodules. If the submodules themselves contain additional submodules, Git will also clone those.

If you need to download files with git under a proxy, setting proxy server system-wide couldn't be enough. You could also try the following: git config --global http.proxy http://<proxy-server>:<port>/