On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Stefan Beller
<stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/08/2013 03:28 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Speaking of --depth, I think in Git 2.0 we should fix the semantics
>>> of "deepening" done with "git fetch".
>>
>> Speaking of 2.0, we should support depth per ref. Well we don't have
>> to wait until 2.0 because we could just add shallow2 extension to the
>> pack protocol. We should also apply depth to new refs when fetching
>> them the first time.
>>
>
> Would this mean I could do something along?
> $ git clone --since v1.8.0 git://github.com/gitster/git.git
>
> So tags would be allowed as anchors?
No. This is what I had in mind:
git clone --branch=master --depth=2 git.git # get branch master with depth 2
git fetch --depth=10 origin next # get branch next with depth 10
# master's depth remains 2
git fetch origin # get (new) branch 'pu' with default depth 2
But your case is interesting. We could specify --depth=v1.8.0.. or
even --depth=v1.8.0~200.. (200 commits before v1.8.0). Somebody may
even go crazy and make --depth=v1.6.0..v1.8.0 work. --depth is
probably not the right name anymore. Any SHA-1 would be allowed as
anchor. But I think we need to wait for reachability bitmap feature to
come first so that we can quickly verify the anchor is reachable from
the public refs.
--
Duy
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