probably doing something idiotic but i'm enumerating variations of shallow cloning, and tried the following: $ git clone --shallow-exclude=master https://github.com/django/django.git Cloning into 'django'... fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly $ it is entirely reproducible, and some googling suggests that this represents an error at the *other* end, which in some weird way does not support that clone option. that seems strange ... should this option work? am i using it incorrectly? wait, hang on ... i just picked one of django's topic branches at random, and this did succeed: $ git clone --shallow-exclude=stable/2.0.x https://github.com/django/django.git Cloning into 'django'... remote: Enumerating objects: 33112, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (33112/33112), done. ... etc etc ... $ but all this gave me was the master branch. i clearly don't understand what this option is supposed to do. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
