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Expand Up @@ -40,10 +40,14 @@ Getting the Source Code and Building LLVM

``git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git``

* You are likely only interested in the main branch moving forward, if
you don't want `git fetch` (or `git pull`) to download user branches, use:
* You are likely not interested in the user branches in the repo (used for
stacked pull-requests and reverts), you can filter them from your
`git fetch` (or `git pull`) with this configuration:

``sed 's#fetch = +refs/heads/\*:refs/remotes/origin/\*#fetch = +refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main#' -i llvm-project/.git/config``
.. code-block:: console

git config --add remote.origin.fetch '^refs/heads/users/*'
git config --add remote.origin.fetch '^refs/heads/revert-*'

#. Configure and build LLVM and Clang:

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