From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:18:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: Failed shallow submodule clone for fixed SHA1 falls back to checking out HEAD
Message-ID: <bf1bd6e4-e099-53b6-428a-85d1e02ee75c@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZy1rBUaF1XbUOPUxDPzT1FwCp92jbbiO4RX3aiCoNkxQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2017-04-18 21:12, Stefan Beller wrote:

>> Wouldn't it make more sense to unshallow the submodule clone in this case and checkout the configured commit 2aa4cce7d7fd46164030f2b4d244c4b89e77f722 afterwards?
> 
> If I remember correctly the conclusion of the discussion at the time
> was that people are more interested in "less data" rather than
> "correct data" because otherwise you would not have asked for shallow.

I do believe this is an awkward choice. What does it help to get less 
data if it's the wrong data?

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth