From: Tom <mail@tgries.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:01:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] shallow clones over http
Message-ID: <loom.20130410T135840-387@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130403040352.GA8284@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes:

> 
> I'm trying to track down a protocol bug that happens with shallow clones
> over smart-http. As far as I can tell, the bug has existed in all
> versions.
> 
> You can reproduce it using the attached repository, which is a shallow
> clone of https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim.git, like:
> 
>   $ tar xzf repo.tar.gz
>   $ cd repo.git
>   $ git fetch --depth=10
>   fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list

The problem occurs to me also when I want to "deepen" a shallow clone of
MediaWiki via https://

 git clone --depth 1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git
 git pull --depth=99999

fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list.

Perhaps it helps someone to find the reason.