From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 12:47:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Git shallow clone branch doesn't work with recursive submodules cloning
Message-ID: <20160815124725.t6bo5fv4lbbnqnfo@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAB-zwL2oFMBFjkkoh1EhSD7FCK_1wVV+whu8uxTKTHQKJgNzrQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 03:29:14PM +0300, Arkady Shapkin wrote:

> Thank you, after updating to "2.9.3.windows.1" options "--recursive
> --depth 1" now works.
> 
> But "--recursive --shallow-submodules" and "--recursive
> --shallow-submodules --depth 1" still doesn't work.

It does "work", but the server hosting your submodule may not be
configured to allow you to access the reachable-but-non-tip sha1
directly. So it's not a bug, but rather a configuration issue (and the
"fix" in v2.9.1 is to be less aggressive about enabling
shallow-submodules, since the default server configuration does not
allow it to work well).

More discussion is in:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/OFE09D48F2.D1D14F49-ONC2257FD7.00280736-C2257FD7.0028245A@notes.na.collabserv.com/t/#u

-Peff