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by seren 4399 days ago
The most usual way to work with git is to pull a local copy of the whole server using "git clone"[1]. The only way to do a partial copy would be to do a shallow copy locally with only the last few commits, but then it will probably be harder to merge back... So it seems you are either wrong, or that your team is using a very very exotic workflow.

[1] it is explicitly called clone and not checkout to underline the fact that you are actually replicating all the data of the server.