Shallow git cloning

When installing either manually or with oh-my-zsh it's better to create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the latest commit only. The installation will be faster and less resource intensive. End users don't care for the entire repo's history and branches anyway.
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@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ See also [repology's cross-distro index](https://repology.org/metapackage/zsh-sy
Simply clone this repository and source the script:
```zsh
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
echo "source ${(q-)PWD}/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh" >> ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc
```
@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ your `.zshrc`.
1. Clone this repository in oh-my-zsh's plugins directory:
```zsh
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
```
2. Activate the plugin in `~/.zshrc`: