rOpenSci | Git Tricks for Working with Large Repositories

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Recently Yanina Bellini Saibene reminded us to update our Slack profile:

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/08/06/git-tricks
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I have

❯ git config alias.clone-lean
clone --filter=blob:none

so if I feel that repo has skeletons in the history, Ctrl-C, and adjust invocation to use clone-lean instead of pure clone and get the history but without heavy blobs from the past.

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