RE: About *git clone --depth=n* puzzle
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> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:51:53 +0200
> From: stefanbeller@googlemail.com
> To: douglarek@outlook.com
> CC: git@vger.kernel.org; junchunx.guan@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: About *git clone --depth=n* puzzle
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> On 08/14/2013 10:20 AM, XinLingchao wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I think I have got some trouble when I use `git clone --depth=n` command. Take a real repo for example:
>>
>>
>> `git clone https://github.com/douglarek/vimrc.git --depth=1`
>>
>>
>> then I use `git log`:
>>
>> ```
>> commit d04ca09ecc723739123fae11ad56784eb0c9b36a
>> Author: Lingchao Xin <douglarek@outlook.com>
>> Date: Fri Jun 7 09:39:22 2013 +0800
>>
>> Update vnudle to master branch, add wm shortcut, pylint optimization
>>
>> commit c66d827dc212f6ae8aab6b5c44631564bcbe2acd
>> Author: icocoa <lingchax@outlook.com>
>> Date: Tue Mar 12 01:36:34 2013 -0700
>>
>> Merge pull request #1 from douglarek/master
>>
>> Add markdown, flake8, pylint plugin
>>
>> ```
>> but when I clone it with `file://`:
>>
>> git clone https://github.com/douglarek/vimrc.git
>> git clone file://vimrc.git --depth=1 vimrc1
>>
>> I got this log:
>> ```
>> commit d04ca09ecc723739123fae11ad56784eb0c9b36a
>> Author: Lingchao Xin <douglarek@outlook.com>
>> Date: Fri Jun 7 09:39:22 2013 +0800
>>
>> Update vnudle to master branch, add wm shortcut, pylint optimization
>> ```
>>
>> so the two results are not same, is it a bug? or it should be so?
>>
>> My os is openSUSE 12.3 and git version 1.8.3.4; and myabe it occured in git 1.8.1.4 +.
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>>
>> Thanks and Best regards
>>
>> Lingchao Xin --
>
> There was a similar discussion going on in July this year,
> maybe this is an interesting read with respect to this topic
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg196138.html
>
> Stefan
>
>
Stefan, I do NOT think so, the key point is not about the depth limit, it is about whether remote clone depth equals local clone depth.
cheers
Lingchao Xin
XinLingchao <douglarek@outlook.com>