diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7d0bf31..dd87c91 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Changes in version 1.12.5
   * autospec.spec - Davide Madrisan:
     Add a build requirement for gettext.
 
++ improvement
+  * lib/libnetwork.lib - Davide Madrisan:
+    git.create_tarball(): run 'git clone --depth=1' to only clone the last
+    commit. We do not need to clone the whole git repository.
+    (Thanks to Silvan Calarco:silvan.calarco(a)mambasoft.it for spotting this.)
+
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 Changes in version 1.12.4
diff --git a/lib/libnetwork.lib.in b/lib/libnetwork.lib.in
index cdcaa8a..be3f5dd 100644
--- a/lib/libnetwork.lib.in
+++ b/lib/libnetwork.lib.in
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ function git.create_tarball() {
    notify.note \
       "${NOTE}"$"cloning git repository""\
  <$git_repository> ${git_branch:+($git_branch)}${NORM}""..."
-   git clone ${git_branch:+-b $git_branch} "$git_repository"
+   git clone --depth=1 ${git_branch:+-b $git_branch} "$git_repository"
    [ $? -eq 0 ] ||
     { popd &>/dev/null
       rm -fr $tmpgitdir