Re: What's in git.git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 2, 2006, 10:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611021055550.1670@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vk62ewtxd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * The 'pu' branch, in addition, has these.
> 
>   Johannes's "shallow" was marked as "pu" material so I've based
>   the series on the tip of "next" (which means we cannot
>   directly merge that into "next" or "master" without rebasing
>   it to "master" first) and parked it in "pu".  I have given
>   only a cursory look to it but it looks promising.

Note that I have no use for shallow clones myself, since I really like to have the complete history around. It also makes for a nice distributed backup solution.

The reasons I did it:

- 'cause I could
- I think it is important for other people (this means you, Jon)
- I suggested lazy clones as an easy way out, but I am now convinced that 
they introduce more problems than they solve. Therefore I wanted to make 
good for the confusion I helped develop.

Since I do not have any use for shallow clones myself, I am waiting for people to jump on it, test it, and shout "Hooray" or "Nacknacknack".

Ciao, Dscho