[Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] doc/s-t.d.o/security-tracker: Mention option to speed out clone

[Salvatore Bonaccorso (@carnil)]

Salvatore Bonaccorso pushed to branch master at Debian Security Tracker / security-tracker


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394c787c by Salvatore Bonaccorso at 2023-10-26T22:49:39+02:00
doc/s-t.d.o/security-tracker: Mention option to speed out clone

In most cases user might not need all blobs and can speed up the git
clone. Git will download the needed blobs when they are needed. In some
use cases user might not need to have access to full history and
respective file contents, so this can be good enough for them.

Link: https://salsa.debian.org/security-tracker-team/security-tracker/-/merge_requests/143
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil at debian.org>

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doc/security-team.d.o/security_tracker
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@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ at home. To do this you just need to do the following:
 
     git clone git at salsa.debian.org:security-tracker-team/security-tracker.git
 
+Note, to speed up the initial clone the filter `--filter=blob:none` can
+be used, which will filter out all blobs (file contents) until needed by
+Git.
+
 This will check out the working repository (given that you already have
 an [Salsa
 account](https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc#Users:_Login_and_Registration).



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