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Re: fully deepening a shallow clone

From
Daniel Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 18, 2010, 12:54 UTC
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On Wednesday 18 August 2010 05:36:08 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> > git-pull(1):
> >       --depth=<depth>
> >           Deepen the history of a shallow repository created by git clone
> >           with --depth=<depth> option (see git-clone(1)) by the specified
> >           number of commits.
> > 
> > Well, what if I want to deepen an existing shallow clone to include
> > the full history? In practice, something like --depth=100000000 is going
> > to work, but in theory, that will eventually fail some day when there are
> > enough commits. :)
> 
> I have always thought --depth=0 will make full repo again. Have you tried
> that?

I tried it myself. --depth=0 is the same as leaving the depth argument off entirely. If you are already working in a shallow clone fetch or pull without arguments won't deepen it at all, only pull in new commits.

I haven't been able to figure out a good way to solve this yet though.
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Message 3 of 16 in “fully deepening a shallow clone”
  1. Joey HessAug 17, 2010
  2. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 18, 2010
  3. Daniel JohnsonAug 18, 2010
  4. 1/3 clone: do not accept --depth on local clonesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 19, 2010
  5. Daniel JohnsonAug 19, 2010
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 19, 2010
  7. Mikael MagnussonAug 19, 2010
  8. 2/3 fetch-pack: use args.shallow to detect shallow clone instead of args.depthNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 19, 2010
  9. 3/3 {fetch,upload}-pack: allow --depth=0 to deepen into full repo againNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 19, 2010
  10. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2010
  11. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 19, 2010
  12. Jakub NarebskiAug 20, 2010
  13. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 20, 2010
  14. grep -A/-B/-Cinfinity to get full contextJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  15. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 20, 2010
  16. Joey HessAug 18, 2010

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