Re: [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 8, 2013, 07:37 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8v84gm5v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8B0ftDDagTpO4wh-LsBOBy+BhwhV=H-68U246Lq4=Ssfw@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> If we choose not to do the off-by-one topic Junio suggested elsewhere
> in the same thread, I think this document patch should be turned into
> code instead. Just reject --depth=0 with an explanation. Users who are
> hit by this will be caught without the need to read through the
> document.

I thought --depth=0 was a way to explicitly say "I do not want any shallow history" so far, so we would need to be a bit more careful, though.

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