Re: Fetching single tag in shallow clone almost unshallow the clone

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Hi,

You should add a --depth here, too. Git doesn't remember that you want
a certain depth, because that doesn't work in perpetuity.


OK. I can specify --depth that I want, but often I forget how deep my clone when fetching tag with --depth, so that it has the same depth as before fetching tag. What should I do?

You are hitting the issue I documented in my comparison between partial
and shallow clones [1]: The commit history for go1.16.1 goes "around"
your shallow boundary. See the image immediately above the "Comparing
Clone Options" section.

[1] https://github.blog/2020-12-21-get-up-to-speed-with-partial-clone-and-shallow-clone/#user-content-shallow-clones

So basically when I request fetching something out of shallow boundary, Git "unshallow" by fetching the whole remaining history (but not implies --unshallow).

I found out that shallow clones perform on repos that have linear history policy (that is no merge commits). For example, on linear history repo, deepening shallow clone with `git fetch --deepen <n>` deepens the shallow boundary by <n> commits, whereas on repo with merge commits, doing the same may drastically zig-zag number of commits on the clone (at one instance can be more commits, at the other can be fewer).

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