Re: [PATCH] Shallow clone: low level machinery.

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

"have X" means different thing if you do not have matching grafts information, so I suspect that is fundamentally unsolvable.

I am not sure you can convince "git-rev-list ^A" to mean "not at A but things before that is still interesting", especially when you give many other heads to start traversing from, but if you can, then you can do things at rev-list command line parameter level without doing the "exchange and use the same grafts" trickery. That _might_ be easier to implement but I do not see an obvious correctness guarantee in the approach.

Implementation bugs aside, it is obvious the things _would_ work correctly with "exchange and use the same grafts" approach.