Re: What's in git.git

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Hi,

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Carl Worth wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:12:38 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >  * The new "--depth $n" parameter to git clone/fetch tries to
> >    limit the commit ancestry depth to $n.
> [...]
> Has though been given to make the depth selection consistent with
> other limiting options for rev-parse and rev-list? For example, I'd
> like to be able to use --since to get a shallow clone, (so should
> --depth instead be --max-count?, and can we re-use some existing
> machinery here?).

I briefly considered that, but decided against it, for two reasons: 1) it 
puts the burden of calculation on the server, and 2) I was not at all sure 
if the whole shallow stuff would be useful to begin with (and therefore 
avoided complicated stuff as much as possible).

> >    Petr Baudis (1):
> >       Make git-clone --use-separate-remote the default
> ...
> >    Junio C Hamano (19):
> >       git-merge: make it usable as the first class UI
> 
> Also very exciting. Please do keep up the user-interface improvements, 
> everybody.

I concur.

Ciao,
Dscho

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