Add a limit to the size for cloning

[paul999]

https://api.github.com/repos/phpbb/phpbb
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8646517/see-the-size-of-a-github-repo-before-cloning-it

[nickvergessen]

Use --depth=1 on clone, if you do not need the commit history

[paul999]

The issue is that the lib I use for cloning doesnt seem to support that.

[tierra]

For what it's worth, gitlib did make the cloneRepository() method public almost a year ago:
gitonomy/gitlib@02ad523d

This would allow you to call cloneRepository() directly instead of cloneBranchTo(), which would give you the ability to specify custom arguments including --depth.

The unfortunate news is that development seems to be stagnant on gitlib, and there still hasn't been a new release containing that change, so you'd have to change the composer package version to 1.0.*@dev. I guess you're already using 0.1.*@dev anyway though, so maybe that would be fine.