From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:39:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] During a shallow fetch, prevent sending over unneeded objects
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Haven't found time to read the rest yet, but this I can answer.
> .git/shallow records graft points. If a commit is in .git/shallow and
> it exists in the repository, the commit is considered to have no
> parents regardless of what's recorded in repository. So .git/shallow
> refers to the new roots, not the missing bits.

Thanks.