From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:03:19 GMT Subject: Re: shallow clone not very shallow due to tags Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Shawn Pearce wrote: > Uhm. That is not a very shallow clone. The clone copied 20234 objects > at 9.15 MiB... so its ~20 MiB lighter than a full clone. But nearly > all of the tags exist, because the clone client is declaring want > lines for them, making the server generate up to 1 commit back from > the wanted tag. I know shallow support is the feature nobody wants to > think about, but this just seems broken to me. Clients performing a > shallow clone shouldn't be asking for tags... but they should be using > the include-tag protocol option so that if they do happen to receive a > tagged commit, the tag object will also be sent. The same would apply if the repo in question has many branches. Should we fetch only master (or a user-specified set of refs) in shallow clone? -- Duy