From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:57:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] gitfaq: shallow cloning a repository
Message-ID: <xmqq1rogmu9e.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <011001d6181d$97301fc0$c5905f40$@nexbridge.com>

"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

>> I have a feeling that --depth/shallow is deprecated/frowned upon these
> days
>> and more people recommend partial/blob-less clones instead (a few random
>> people added to Cc: to see if they want to say something here).
>
> I rather hate to chime in as a dissenting opinion,...

Oh, don't hate anything.  It is greatly appreciated so that we can
cover "in such and such use case, this solution is good" variants
for similarly-sounding-but-fundamentally-different classes of
problems.  We do not want to give a spinal-reflex answer of "use
shallow" (or "use partial", for that matter) to "too large a repo"
question without contexts that guide the readers to a better choice.

That is where a well-organized FAQ list shines.

Thanks.