Re: [PATCH] git-clone: Sync documentation to usage note.

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 22:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20070215223802.GA27992@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <117157763494-git-send-email-schlotter@users.sourceforge.net>

Christian Schlotter <schlotter@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

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> Please note that I was not able to test the new shallow clone feature, as
> both
>     git clone --depth=5 git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> and
>     git clone --depth 5 git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> do not seem to work.  The former correctly produces the usage note, while
> the latter prints
> 
>     Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cs/tmp2/git/.git/
>     fatal: read error (Connection reset by peer)
>     fetch-pack from 'git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' failed.
> 
> Is this a problem on my end?

Sort of.  ;-)

The server side must also support shallow clone. I don't think the server on kernel.org has been upgraded yet to a version which supports that feature, so you cannot shallow clone from there.

-- 
Shawn.