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Re: shallow clone, shallow fetch?

From
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 1, 2009, 09:25 UTC
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On 2009-01-01, jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
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> Last week I did git-clone --depth 1 This week I wanted to freshen my
> repository, with the same goal: "I don't care about history, just
> fast forward me with the least bytes transfered." But all I can find
> is just plain git pull. Did I achieve my goal?
> $ git pull
> remote: Counting objects: 7007, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3057/3057), done.
> remote: Total 7007 (delta 4280), reused 6076 (delta 3625)
> Receiving objects: 100% (7007/7007), 2.96 MiB | 26 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (4280/4280), done.
> From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>    2fa431b..bbbb865  html       -> origin/html
>    a9012e3..936b705  maint      -> origin/maint
>    dfd79c7..794d84e  man        -> origin/man
>    159c88e..c32f76f  master     -> origin/master
>    3b9b952..6f67462  next       -> origin/next
>  + b14a7fb...89bdc19 pu         -> origin/pu  (forced update)

The hashes certainly agree with what I have (just did a pull this minute), except I also have a new branch called "origin/todo" at SHA1=6670008 which you seem to be missing.

I'm not familiar enough with shallow clones to draw any conclusions though :-(

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