From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:59:39 GMT Subject: shallow clones, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87zma06ptm.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> Hi, On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > >> * js/shallow (Fri Nov 24 16:00:13 2006 +0100) > >> > >> Probably with a better documentation of its limitations and caveats, > >> this should be mergeable to 'master'. > > > > The more I see the missing reaction, the less sure I am this is a sensible > > thing to do. > > I'm not sure what reaction you expect, but this is something a lot of > our occasional Wine users are requesting. The Wine full history is 80Mb, > and that's a big download if you just want to try a quick patch. Now of > course you won't see these users around here hacking on shallow clone, > most likely they just went and downloaded Wine from the CVS mirror > instead. But it's a shame to have to maintain a CVS mirror just for that > purpose... Sorry, I was just mumbling about the fact that I would _like_ to hear back about successes and failures. If there are problems I want to fix them. So, do you actually know of people who _used_ (as opposed to "tested") shallow clones? Ciao, Dscho