Clone depth of 1, pull all branches

[elliot-wasem]

I was wondering if it's feasible to clone at a depth of 1, and pull down all non-deleted branches from remote.

My reason is that I'm trying to get around gitlab's inability to search for files by name across all repos in my organization (short of self-hosting and using elasticsearch). So, I want to be able to clone down all repos (thank you ghorg), and search.

However, cloning all my org's repos takes forever. And therefore comes my desire for --depth=1 or similar.

I am planning on using git worktree to connect branches, then using fzf to actually do searches.

Anyway, does this sound feasible as a ghorg feature? Or should I just implement that myself?

[gabrie30]

Sorry @elliot-wasem I didn't see this until today. Yes I think this would be feasible. Probably a flag like --clone-depth=n would work. You might also want to omit any blobs if you are searching ghorg can already do that using --git-filter=blob:none