Muchas veces, quieres el código de acá para adelante. Un caso es el Kernel.

Para clonar algo sin jalar todo su historial, utiliza:

git clone --depth 1 https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/anaconda.git

Así de fácil. Obviamente, substituye el repo por uno que te interese:

git clone --depth …

Ok, Fedora adheres, thankfully, to the FHS a lot and, thus, changes where things might go. In this case, they don't use the git user; they use gitolite3 as a user. And, in a nutshell, here's how to configure it:

The first part of the HowTo goes on the Server …

This one is not mine. It's, actually, a transcript. Please, check out the source at the bottom

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# Local
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# Create a website
mkdir website && cd website
git init
echo 'Hello, world!' > index.html
git add index.html
git commit -q -m "The humble beginnings of my web site."

# add remotes
git …