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date: "2021-02-02"
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title: "Clone filters (partial clone)"
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slug: "clone-filters"
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weight: 25
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draft: false
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parent: "advanced"
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name: "Clone filters"
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weight: 25
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identifier: "clone-filters"
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---
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# Clone filters (partial clone)
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Git introduces `--filter` option to `git clone` command, which filters out
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large files and objects (such as blobs) to create partial clone of a repo.
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Clone filters are especially useful for large repo and/or metered connection,
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where full clone (without `--filter`) can be expensive (as all history data
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must be downloaded).
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This requires Git version 2.22 or later, both on the Gitea server and on the
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client. For clone filters to work properly, make sure that Git version
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on the client is at least the same as on the server (or later). Login to
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Gitea server as admin and head to Site Administration -> Configuration to
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see Git version of the server.
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By default, clone filters are enabled, unless `DISABLE_PARTIAL_CLONE` under
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`[git]` is set to `true`.
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See [GitHub blog post: Get up to speed with partial clone](https://github.blog/2020-12-21-get-up-to-speed-with-partial-clone-and-shallow-clone/)
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for common use cases of clone filters (blobless and treeless clones), and
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[GitLab docs for partial clone](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/git/partial_clone.html)
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for more advanced use cases (such as filter by file size and remove
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filters to turn partial clone into full clone).
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