Re: [PATCH] Shallow clone: low level machinery.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 31, 2006, 18:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601311904410.10944@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5i81e4e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > apart from my thinking this is not backward-compatible (you are supposed 
> > to be able to pull from a complete repo, even if it has a 
> > non-shallow-capable upload-pack), here are my comments:
> 
> It cannot do a shallow clone against older servers, no.

Worse, you cannot pull from older servers into shallow repos.

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> > - The custom_graft issue could be handled in a more elegant manner if 
> > 	git was lib'ified (no temporary file). Since that is already the 
> > 	plan, why not do that first, and come back later?
> 
> That is why it does not write any temporary files.  It
> introduces a way to read graft information from an environment
> variable.

Ooops. I only saw that you setup_custom_grafts and assumed wrongly.

Ciao, Dscho