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Re: git clone --depth and git describe

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
May 10, 2013, 01:36 UTC
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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have a use case where I'd like to improve performance using "git
> clone --depth". But I also need "git describe" working on that clone.
>
> So something like
>  git clone --depth=describable
> would be nice to have.
What does --depth=describable do?
>
> Would it be possible to add such feature?

-- Duy

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