From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:03:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] shallow clones over http
Message-ID: <20130413060310.GA21921@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130410T144700-304@post.gmane.org>

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:48:51PM +0000, Tom wrote:

> The problem occurs to me also when I want to "deepen" a shallow clone of
> MediaWiki via https://
> 
>  git clone --depth 1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git
>  git pull --depth=99999
> 
> fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list.
> 
> Perhaps it helps someone to find the reason.
> 
> UPDATE:
> 
> This however works
> 
>  git clone --depth=2 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git
>  git fetch --depth=5

Yes, I experienced the same thing. I don't think the problem is related
to the depth per se, but rather the particular pattern of ACKs that
upload-pack sends based on which commits are being selected.

-Peff