[PATCH] D97118: [Docs] Mention clone depth feature of git in LLVM getting started

[Shivam Gupta via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

xgupta updated this revision to Diff 325418.

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  llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst


Index: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst
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--- llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst
+++ llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
    * ``git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git``
    * Or, on windows, ``git clone --config core.autocrlf=false
      https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git``
+   * To save storage and speed-up the checkout time, you may want to do a 
+     `shallow clone <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#Documentation/git-clone.txt---depthltdepthgt>`_. 
+     For example, to get the latest revision of the LLVM project, use 
+     ``git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git``
 
 #. Configure and build LLVM and Clang:
 


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