Re: does clone --depth work?

From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2009, 08:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20091130081800.GR10640@bicker>
In-Reply-To: <20091129163242.GA7921@atjola.homenet>

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 05:32:42PM +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

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> On 2009.11.29 18:03:52 +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > I do: `git clone --depth 0 ./repo1/ repo2`  I expected that 
> > "git log" in repo2 wouldn't show any revisions, but it does.
> > 
> > I'm using 1.6.5.3.171.ge36e.dirty (small unrelated modification).
> > 
> > Am I doing something incorrectly?
> 
> Two problems:
> a) IIRC depth = 0 is like not specifying depth at all
> b) When using plain paths, clone optimizes the process by just doing a
> copy, that doesn't apply the depth setting at all
> 
> git clone --depth=1 file://$PWD/repo1 repo2
>

Awesome.  That does work.

thanks, dan

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> That should work. Of course you still got some commits, so "git log"
> will show them. You just don't get all of them, but only to a certain
> depth.
> 
> Björn