Christian Schlotter <schlotter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please note that I was not able to test the new shallow clone feature, as > both > git clone --depth=5 git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git > and > git clone --depth 5 git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git > do not seem to work. The former correctly produces the usage note, while > the latter prints > > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cs/tmp2/git/.git/ > fatal: read error (Connection reset by peer) > fetch-pack from 'git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' failed. > > Is this a problem on my end? Sort of. ;-) The server side must also support shallow clone. I don't think the server on kernel.org has been upgraded yet to a version which supports that feature, so you cannot shallow clone from there. -- Shawn. - 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