Re: [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible.

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Matthijs Kooijman wrote:

> In other words: we won't break existing clients if we suddenly send back
> one less commit than before, since the client just sends over what it
> wants and then assumes that whatever it gets back is really what it
> wanted?

Yes, depending on your definition of "break".

An advantage of that approach is that old clients would get the new,
intuitive behavior without upgrading. A disadvantage is that it is a
confusing world where the same command produces different effects when
contacting different servers.
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