From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:27:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] clone: do not accept --depth on local clones
Message-ID: <7vwrrk95eg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1282269067-5527-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> clone_local() function disregards --depth. Make it more apparent.
> Also hint users that file:// works with --depth.

Hmm---why?

The "--depth" option is an ugly hack that tries to conserve network
bandwidth and disk usage, which is not necessary if you are doing a local
hardlinking clone.  Without this patch we allowed people to clone with the
option without a downside (allowing it didn't result in broken repository,
for example), but with it, what has long been allowed suddenly stops
working.  Is the breakage justifiable?