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Shallow clone

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, shallow clone means: A repository copy with a limited portion of commit history rather than the full history available from its source.

In Turkish: sığ klon

How it is used

Used for quick automated jobs. Some history comparisons require deepening the clone first.

Example sentences

  1. The build job uses a shallow clone because it needs only the latest source snapshot.

    Older revisions are omitted because the task does not need them.

  2. We deepened the shallow clone before comparing the release with last year's version.

    The original history boundary did not include the older comparison point.

Common collocations

  • create a shallow clone
  • deepen a shallow clone
  • cloneTo download a full copy of a remote repository, including its history, to your own computer so that you can work on it.
  • commitA saved snapshot of changes in a repository, with a short message that explains what was changed and why. Also used as a verb: to commit your changes.

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