Short answer is, not easily: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14610427 https://stackoverflow.com/a/14610427 You can get the most recent tree for a repository (no hi

Short answer is, not easily: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14610427 https://stackoverflow.com/a/14610427 You can get the most recent tree for a repository (no history, just the current state of the repo) with `git clone --depth=1`. That's often good enough for slow connections.