> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:06:08 +0200
> 
> Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> > So how do I tell git to only clone master and not give me everybody
> > else's shit?  Last time I tried to do that, it simply didn't work.
> 
> git-clone(1):
> 
>        --[no-]single-branch
>            Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,
>            either specified by the --branch option or the primary branch
>            remote’s HEAD points at.

But I can't push from a repository cloned like that can I?