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P4 Distributed Versioning Documentation | 2025.1

# Fetch a limited subset of history

If you have a server with a lot of history you might only want to fetch the latest few revisions to save on local storage. To do so, use the `-m N` option:

    p4 fetch -m 5

This specifies that the server perform a shallow fetch, fetching only the last 5 revisions of each file. You can also take a slice of your history as noted above.

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