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Speed up getDocs clones with shallow, single-branch fetch
Jul 17, 2026
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Merge branch 'main' into getdocs-shallow-clone
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions getDocs.js
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Expand Up @@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ const ghUrl = 'https://github.com/'
repos.forEach((repo) => {
const repoDir = `repo_to_be_edited/${repo.label}`

// Clone the repository
const cloneCommand = `git clone ${ghUrl + repo.repo} ${repoDir}`
// Clone the repository (shallow, single branch — we only need a snapshot of the docs)
const cloneCommand = `git clone --single-branch --depth 1 ${
ghUrl + repo.repo
} ${repoDir}`
execSync(cloneCommand)

// Remove git folders
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