Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Shallow clones with --shallow-since or --shalow-exclude work by > running rev-list to get all reachable commits, then draw a boundary > between reachable and unreachable and send "shallow" requests based on > that. > > The code does miss one corner case: if rev-list returns nothing, we'll > have no border and we'll send no shallow requests back to the client > (i.e. no history cuts). This essentially means a full clone (or a full > branch if the client requests just one branch). One example is the > oldest commit is older than what is specified by --shallow-since. "the newest commit is older than", isn't it? That is, the cutoff point specified is newer than the existing history.