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Well, yes, that will work, but many larger Git repos take many minutes to download, not to mention the fact that you now have random repos scattered around your system.



If you are only interested in what HEAD has, you can use `--depth 1` with clone


Yeah, it might just be best to use a script to run `git clone --depth=1` into a temporary directory and run the Git GUI on that checkout. I think I'll try writing that up.


Yeah, that's mostly why I've learned to find my way around GitHub and GitWeb's UI…I'm not sure if there's any way to implement this without downloading the whole thing.




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