The problem occurs to me also when I want to "deepen" a shallow clone of MediaWiki via https:// git clone --depth 1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git git pull --depth=99999 fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list. Perhaps it helps someone to find the reason. UPDATE: This however works git clone --depth=2 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git git fetch --depth=5 -- 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