Git: Shallow copies from a specific commit

Question

git clone --depth N ... creates a shallow clone with history limited to the last N revisions and I can use git clone -b tag ... to fetch the commits re

Answer 1

If running at least Git 2.11 on both client and server side, there's a work-around if you know the date of the tagged commit and which branch it is on:

git clone --branch  --shallow-since=