Testing the shallow-clone notification.

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@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ This repository consolidates several reputable `hosts` files, and merges them
 into a unified hosts file with duplicates removed.  This repo provides several
 hosts files tailored to you need to block.
 
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+       <img class="avatar left" src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/80144?v=3&s=50" width="50" height="50">
+       <h3>Shallow clone and avoid 400 Mb of history</h3>
+       <p>I recommend a **shallow clone** because you probably don't need many years of history.</p>
+       <p>Like this:</p> 
+       <pre>
+git clone --depth 5 https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.git
+       </pre>
+</div>
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 * Last updated: **April 09 2017**.
 * Here's the [raw hosts file with base extensions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts) containing 35,460 entries.
 
@@ -308,4 +318,4 @@ devices under a variety of operating systems.
 
 * [Block ads and malware via local DNS server](https://github.com/mueller-ma/block-ads-via-dns "Block ads and malware via local DNS server") (for Debian, Raspbian & Ubuntu): Set up a local DNS server with a `/etc/bind/named.conf.blocked` file, sourced from here.
 
-* [Blocking ads and malwares with unbound](https://deadc0de.re/articles/unbound-blocking-ads.html "Blocking ads and malwares with unbound") – [Unbound](https://www.unbound.net/ "Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.")  is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.
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+* [Blocking ads and malwares with unbound](https://deadc0de.re/articles/unbound-blocking-ads.html "Blocking ads and malwares with unbound") – [Unbound](https://www.unbound.net/ "Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.")  is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.