From: Bagas Sanjaya Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:13:05 GMT Subject: Re: Shallow clone support in v3.0 and beyond? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 9/10/25 18:08, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 06:34:02AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Askar Safin posted on the ML about his complaints >> regarding grafts removal in v3.0+ (see [1] for the full thread). He also >> briefly mentioned future of shallow clones (aka git clone --depth=1). >> >> The question is: If grafts support is removed, then how can shallow clones >> be implemented in terms of git-replace(1)? What about its implementation >> details? How about unshallowing (git fetch --unshallow)? >> >> Thanks. >> >> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/198c29e9058.119e3a5c065010.5888624019176274871@zohomail.com/T/#t > > I think the BreakingChanges document could use a revamp in that regard. > The mechanism used to implement shallow clones is of course _not_ going > away, and the internal mechanism to facilitate this will go away. > > So the intention really only to remove ".git/info/grafts" as a > user-visible mechanism. Users should exclusively use git-replace(1). OK, thanks! -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara