Sebastian Leske <Sebastian.Leske@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > However, this does not make sense to me: This sounds like there is no > good reason *not* to enable this option. So why is it there? And in > what situation might I want to use "--no-follow-parent"? Speed. Following long/convoluted histories can take a long time. Sometimes the user doesn't care about ancient history. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html