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Re: [PATCH 1/3] clone: do not accept --depth on local clones

From
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2010, 22:15 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Daniel Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thursday 19 August 2010 06:40:35 you wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  builtin/clone.c |    7 +++++--
>>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> Can you make it a little clearer what the rationale is for this change? Why
> wouldn't you be able to do a limited-depth local clone? Seems like this
> would
> break some tests, and even if not, would prevent the writing of them.

It's been like this ever since and it puzzled me, "why 'git clone --depth=2 ~/foo' did not work? What did I do?" Will do as Mikael suggested.

-- 
Duy
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Message 6 of 16 in “fully deepening a shallow clone”
  1. Joey HessAug 17, 2010
  2. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 18, 2010
  3. Daniel JohnsonAug 18, 2010
  4. 1/3 clone: do not accept --depth on local clonesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 19, 2010
  5. Daniel JohnsonAug 19, 2010
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 19, 2010
  7. Mikael MagnussonAug 19, 2010
  8. 2/3 fetch-pack: use args.shallow to detect shallow clone instead of args.depthNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 19, 2010
  9. 3/3 {fetch,upload}-pack: allow --depth=0 to deepen into full repo againNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 19, 2010
  10. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2010
  11. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 19, 2010
  12. Jakub NarebskiAug 20, 2010
  13. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 20, 2010
  14. grep -A/-B/-Cinfinity to get full contextJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  15. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 20, 2010
  16. Joey HessAug 18, 2010

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