From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:43:25 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <48C7E9A1.5080409@gnu.org> 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