2009/2/12 Joey Hess <joey@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > git-clone(1): > A shallow repository has a number of > limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor > into it) > > This and other documentation (shallow.txt, RelNotes-1.5.0.txt) says you > can't push from a shallow repo. But in a simple test of making a commit > to a shallow repo and pushing it out, it seems to work. AFAICS, git only > guards against pushes *into* a shallow repo, and fetching/cloning from a > shallow repository. > > Are the docs out of date, or is there really still some problem > with pushing from a shallow repo? AFAIK, it will work in simple cases, but isn't guaranteed to work. > BTW, --depth seems to be ignored when making a local clone. > This seems to have been fixed in the old shell git-clone in > d4110a9726c7cd5cda35b7dd03dc8f85fe3dff0c, was it accidentially lost > in the C version? > > joey@gnu:~/src/other> git clone --depth 2 git git.shallow > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/joey/src/other/git.shallow/.git/ > joey@gnu:~/src/other> cd git.shallow > joey@gnu:~/src/other/git.shallow> git-log --pretty=oneline|wc -l > 17009 > > git version 1.5.6.5 You most likely need to use the file:// syntax for this to work, otherwise git will just hardlink/copy the whole objects dir without looking at it. -- Mikael Magnusson -- 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
