From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:34:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Does cloning a shallow repo require special setting in the cloned one?
Message-ID: <87tz6hn1tg.fsf@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <1235620146513-2387799.post@n2.nabble.com>

On 2009-02-25 19:49 (-0800), roylee17 wrote:

> $ 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