"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > A `git fetch --prune` can turn previously-reachable objects unreachable, > even commits that are in the `shallow` list. A subsequent `git repack > -ad` will then unceremoniously drop those unreachable commits, and the > `shallow` list will become stale. This means that when we try to fetch > with a larger `--depth` the next time, we may end up with: > > fatal: error in object: unshallow <commit-hash> Nicely analysed and described. One minor thing nagged me in the implementation but it is not a big issue. > +... > + d="$(git -C shallow-server rev-parse --verify D)" && > + git -C shallow-server checkout master && > + > +... > + ! grep $d shallow-client/.git/shallow && We know D (and $d) is not a tag, but perhaps the place that assigns to $d (way above) can do the rev-parse of D^0, not D, to make it more clear what is going on, especially given that... > + git -C shallow-server branch branch-orig D^0 && ... this does that D^0 thing here to makes us wonder if D needs unwrapping before using it as a commit (not commit-ish). If we did so, we could use $d here instead of D^0. > + git -C shallow-client fetch --prune --depth=2 \ > + origin "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" > +' > + > . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-httpd.sh > start_httpd
