'--shallow-since' option is not available for git-pull in Git version 2.14.1
- From
- Sanggyu Nam <pokeplus@gmail.com>
- Date
- Sep 25, 2017, 07:31 UTC
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- <F3F7A768-C844-4D77-9403-53AC3F506080@gmail.com>
I’ve found that some subcommands such as git-clone, git-fetch, and git-pull support an option named ‘--shallow-since’, as of Git version 2.11. This option is documented in the man page of each subcommand. In Git 2.14.1, I’ve checked that the option is available for git-clone and git-fetch so that the history of a shallow repository is updated. However, running git-pull with this option shows an error as follows:
error: unknown option `shallow-since=2017-09-10T00:00:00+00:00'
usage: git pull [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] ...
I found that this option is not available in Git 2.14.1 on macOS and Ubuntu 16.04.1. It seems the option handling of git-pull does not match with what’s described in the man page. Since ‘git pull’ is a shorthand for ‘git fetch’ followed by ‘git merge FETCH_HEAD’ in its default mode, we can run these two commands in this order as a workaround.