On April 21, 2020 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] gitfaq: shallow cloning a repository > "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> I have a feeling that --depth/shallow is deprecated/frowned upon > >> these > > days > >> and more people recommend partial/blob-less clones instead (a few > >> random people added to Cc: to see if they want to say something here). > > > > I rather hate to chime in as a dissenting opinion,... > > Oh, don't hate anything. It is greatly appreciated so that we can cover "in > such and such use case, this solution is good" variants for similarly-sounding- > but-fundamentally-different classes of problems. We do not want to give a > spinal-reflex answer of "use shallow" (or "use partial", for that matter) to > "too large a repo" > question without contexts that guide the readers to a better choice. > > That is where a well-organized FAQ list shines. I have spoken on this topic and can probably share some of it.
