As discussed in issue #1142, shallow clones are not supported yet by the libgit2 clone API.

One can work around this by initializing a repository, setting the core.depth variable in the config, setup a remote etc. But ... it does not work with git_clone().

IMHO the git_clone_options struct should be extended by an unsigned int depth variable, which in turn is given to git_clone() to setup the --depth config variable.

Also referencing issue #1430 - just for the record.

Thanks for all the support this far and merry christmas to y'all.

EDIT: The remote alias "origin" is also set in create_and_configure_origin(). This should be an option as well.

How about adding a git_remote *remote member in git_clone_options, that would allow to manually setup a customized remote?