From: Roy Lee <roylee17@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:33:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Does cloning a shallow repo require special setting in the cloned one?
Message-ID: <6eac7f470902252333x6326419bq305da3436cff3aa7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87tz6hn1tg.fsf@iki.fi>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-02-25 19:49 (-0800), roylee17 wrote:
>
>> $ git clone --depth 1 git-full git-shallow2
>> 'git log' still gives a full history
>>
>> Why can't I clone a shallow repo from the git-full?
>> Does it requires some settings in the git-full repo?
>
> I don't know the "why" part but using file:// URL should work:
>
>    git clone --depth 1 file:///path/to/git-full git-shallow2
>

Thanks, Teemu. file:///path/to/git-full works.