Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Not really local data. More like _weakly referenced_ data. If it is >> there, cool. If it is not there, no big deal. > > You think it's "cool". > > I think it is "unreliable, random, and depends on the phase of the moon". I think that shallow clones are not any different from this. If the required piece of history is there, cool. If they're not there, no big deal. I understood the hyperbole, but I think that it's not unreliable, because all it relies on is the uniqueness of SHA1 values. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html