I'd like to clone a repository with a longish history. I'm only interested in a few short-lived not-yet-merged feature branches and master.
In order to not confuse myself with all that past history and merged branches, I'd like to do a shallow clone starting at a specific commit SHA.
However, so far I've only found documentation on how to do shallow clones that only include the last n commits (--depth) resp, the commits since a specific date (--shallow-since).
Is there a way to specify a shallow-clone starting at a given commit?
There is not, which is kind of a shame since it would be easy for Git to implement.
Usually using --depth is sufficient: just start with a depth you think is enough, and if it's not, repeatedly fetch with --deepen or --depth as needed.