Is the size of the history/repo still an issue? Shallow clones seem to be powerful enough with newer git versions. You can push from a shallow clone since v1.9

Is the size of the history/repo still an issue? Shallow clones seem to be powerful enough with newer git versions. You can push from a shallow clone since v1.9.0 http://stackoverflow.com/q/6900103/2361979 http://stackoverflow.com/q/6900103/2361979 You can fetch more history on demand http://stackoverflow.com/a/11834692/2361979 http://stackoverflow.com/a/11834692/2361979 You can fetch the full history on demand since v1.8.3 http://stackoverflow.com/a/36123631/2361979 http://stackoverflow.com/a/36123631/2361979 You can push/pull between shallow clones. This of course fails, if you the repos have no common ancestors.