From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:58:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible.
Message-ID: <CAFzf2Xzm4rG0AFEui7iU56HqX0vciVwWTd=Yb+TXLSmBa=Vbjw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130528163416.GK25742@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>

Matthijs Kooijman wrote:

> In other words: we won't break existing clients if we suddenly send back
> one less commit than before, since the client just sends over what it
> wants and then assumes that whatever it gets back is really what it
> wanted?

Yes, depending on your definition of "break".

An advantage of that approach is that old clients would get the new,
intuitive behavior without upgrading. A disadvantage is that it is a
confusing world where the same command produces different effects when
contacting different servers.