Topic on Talk:Download from Git

• User sees section 'Download for development'.
• User wants section 'Download not for development'.
• User researches the advice "git clone --depth 1, then e.g., git pull (--depth=1 too?) monthly".
• After several years user finds du -sh showing

1.5G    mediawiki/
1.4G    mediawiki/.git

• User does not need history filling up his disks!

great tip to put in --depth=1 - I haven't investigated much, but i do:

git clone --depth=1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git