# Pkg downtime incident

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-downtime-incident/44288
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** package
**Created:** [August 4, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-downtime-incident/44288 "2020-08-04T21:58:19Z")
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### Author: ![Keno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/keno/32/285_2.png) [@Keno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Keno)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-downtime-incident/44288/7 "2020-08-05T00:34:33Z")

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> [@kevbonham](#):
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> Is it possible to switch to a shallow clone? I imagine this would be a bit slower than a tarball, but substantially better than cloning a full history.

GitHub requests people don’t do this because the full clone path is special cased while the shallow clone case uses a slow path that causes lots of CPU load.

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