Re: Supporting --depth when cloning from a bundle

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 02:37:20PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The "depth" is used to negitiate what objects to include in the
> packfile that is transmit from the other side.  That would not
> fundamentally work on bundles, because a bundle is pregenerated and
> there is nobody on the other side for you to negotiate with to
> affect what objects are included in the packfile which is contained
> in the bundle file.

Junio:

Sorry for the potentially stupid follow-up question. I know that git makes a
distinction when cloning locally between a direct path and a file:// URL (e.g.
it's only possible to do a shallow clone from a local repository when using
the file:// scheme). When that happens, doesn't that same negotiation happen
locally (perhaps in a simulated way)? If that so, then theoretically the same
approach could be taken with the bundle file?

(I'm not actually that interested in that feature, to be honest -- I'd much
rather see further work on git-native CDN offload of packfiles, so we stop
using kludges like bundle files for this purpose.)

-K