is it possible to git clone from a specific commit point

Question

NOTE: there is an edit to this question below

I have used git clone ssh://etc before to pull a remote repository

Is there a way to clone that repository from a specific commit point?

I'm wanting to pull only what happened on master say from 1 year ago. The repo is 14 years old and huge.

If this is not possible, is there a way to clone the repo, and then locally compact everything (including all indexes and so forth) into a single "pseudo" commit as if it was the initial code commit? Thanks.

Edits:

The accepted answer found here does not work in this case. The process only pulls down a repo of the same size, and the entire history is still available (and takes up space).

owilliams@OWILLIAMS010451 ~ % du -sh xms_v*                                                                                                                                                                                3:32:56
1.6G    xms_v3
1.6G    xms_v3_ObjectExplorer
1.4G    xms_v3_shallow           <-- no change

Not shown but if I move the .git folder out of the repo, the size is only 524M.

Here is what it looks like in SourceTree:

What I am wanting is to see a single commit with a matching the remote, and what I would a assume as a "pseudo" squashed commit prior to that, as if that was my first code commit.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65895458/is-it-possible-to-git-clone-from-a-specific-commit-point

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