From: Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:19:09 GMT
Subject: Re: "git clone --depth <depth>" producing history with <depth + 1> commits?
Message-ID: <49D4128D.7000803@hartwork.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904020303320.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Anyone?  Is "git clone --depth 1 <ropository>" really supposed to 
>> produce a history holding _two_ commits?  Why so?
> 
> Because storing _no_ commit (according to you, that should happen with 
> --depth=0) would make no sense?
> 
> After all, if you want to clone, you want to clone at least _something_.

I'm aware you need one commit at least.

I didn't think of several branches before.
I guess that's resolving the core of my question.




Sebastian