From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:40:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Doing blobless clone by default; switching between blobless, treeless and full clones by a command
Message-ID: <a1f72b71-2068-4526-920b-bab82137a509@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aLrWUhtCqp1hMcQS@pks.im>

On 9/5/2025 8:23 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 08:19:59AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:

> So in general, the recommendation I typically give is to not use
> treeless clones at all.

Rather, I'd say that treeless clones are useful if you want the
speed of a shallow clone with some need to analyze commit history
(with no path history) for an ephemeral scenario like a CI build.

Treeless clones are not a good approach for doing ongoing work as
a human. They are a tool for a very narrow case, so don't use them
unless you understand how to avoid their pitfalls.

Thanks,
-Stolee