Re: [PATCH v3] doc: describe Git bundle format

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2020, 20:59 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlfpe2jx3.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJB1erXMR_aCqVPsH6WQZdC7yybOBCUbwkJDv3LtU2f0ymNmbQ@mail.gmail.com>

Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com> writes:

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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:42 PM Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com> wrote:
>> +=== Note on the shallow clone and a Git bundle
>> +
>> +Note that the prerequisites does not represent a shallow-clone boundary. The
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> the prerequisites do not

Grammo aside, I am not sure if that particular Note is beneficial to begin with. I would imagine that you can get a bundle that holds all the objects in a shallow repository by specifying the range that match the shallow-clone boundary when you run "git bundle create" while disabling thin-pack generation.

The support of shallow-clone by Git may be incomplete and it may not be easy to form such a range, and "git bundle create" command may not have a knob to disable thin-pack generation, but that does not mean that the bundle *format* cannot be used to represent the shallow boundary.