Re: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: document that pushing from a shallow clone may work

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 4, 2009, 11:11 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903041209070.8549@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdqp5zx9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Isn't the rule more or less like:
> 
>     If your shallow repository's history does not extend long enough and
>     the other repository forked before your truncated history, wyou cannot
>     compute the common ancestor and you cannot push out.

Exactly.

Back when I wrote the shallow code, I meant to investigate how to detect that condition, and fail gracefully (i.e. with a meaningful error message).

IMHO that is more needed than documentation changes, as it affects more users ;-)

But in the meantime, I had no use for shallow clones, and kind of hoped that it would become somebody else's itch.

Ciao, Dscho