How to reduce GIT traffic?

Question

git

There is such a command

git clone url

As you know, this command creates a copy of the repository in the current directory, while according to observations, the contents of the .git folder take up many times more than the useful content.
Is it possible to somehow "refuse" or something from downloading this unnecessary trash and limiting ourselves only to useful repository files? :)

Answer 1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29368837/copy-... the author's question is not about that, and the answers there are not at the checkout to the question itself, but they answer your question

Answer 2

> limited to only useful repository files? :)
everyone has their own criteria for usefulness, but git clone --depth 1 probably does what you want

Answer 3

Is it possible to somehow "refuse" or something from downloading this unnecessary trash and limiting ourselves only to useful repository files? :)

Actually, these are useful files.