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Re: Does cloning a shallow repo require special setting in the cloned one?

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TLTeemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date
Feb 26, 2009, 06:34 UTC
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On 2009-02-25 19:49 (-0800), roylee17 wrote:
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> $ 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
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