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[JENKINS-70094] Support blobless clone
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Description
Git supports filter commands since some time, so i'm now interested in blobless filter.
With that filter the clone and fetch commands copy the full tree, but only required blobs.
This has two improvements:
- less transfer and repo size
- still full git history for tools which need it
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Git supports filter commands since some time, so i'm now interested in blobless filter.
With that filter the clone and fetch commands copy the full tree, but only required blobs.
This has two improvements:
- less transfer and repo size
- still full git history for tools which need it
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