Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Date
- Sep 10, 2008, 15:43 UTC
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- <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809100841080.3384@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I think that shallow clones are not any different from this. If the > required piece of history is there, cool. If they're not there, no big > deal.
Sure. I don't use them either. But because I don't use them, it doesn't affect me. It also doesn't change the core git data structures in any way to introduce any new problems.
Also, if there isn't a required piece of history, things generally break very loudly. IOW, there are only certain things you can do with a shallow repo. In general it's absolutely _not_ a "no big deal" issue, quite the reverse - it's a deal-breaker.
Linus