diff --git a/Bootstrapping.md b/Bootstrapping.md
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--- a/Bootstrapping.md
+++ b/Bootstrapping.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ To get the source code you need either of these:
 
 * A working web browser + tar(or equivalent) `[[https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/tarball/master]]`
 * wget + tar `wget --no-check-certificate "https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/tarball/master"`
-* git `git clone git://github.com/Araq/Nimrod.git`
+* git `git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/Araq/Nimrod.git`
 
 After downloading the source (and extracting it), you need to extract build/csources.zip then you can bootstrap with: