From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:50:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] upload-pack: allow shallow fetching from a read-only repository
Message-ID: <xmqqha7ch1bi.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140305124304.GA27214@lanh>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> If only there is a way to pass this info without a temporary
> file. Multiplexing it to pack-objects' stdin should work. It may be
> ugly, but it's probably the safest way.
>
> Wait it does not look that ugly. We can feed "--shallow <SHA1>" lines
> before sending want/have/edge objects. Something like this seems to
> work (just ran a few shallow-related tests, not the whole test suite)

Sounds like it is a much better approach to the issue.