From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>,
schlotter@users.sourceforge.net, Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible.
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:36:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd2xggm8a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vip78go6b.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:54:20 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Stefan Beller wrote:
>>
>>> Currently it is not possible to have a shallow depth of
>>> just 0, i.e. only one commit in that repository after cloning.
>>> The minimum number of commits is 2, caused by depth=1.
>>
>> Sounds buggy. Would anything break if we were to make --depth=1 mean
>> "1 deep, including the tip commit"?
>
> As long as we do not change the meaning of the "shallow" count going
> over the wire (i.e. the number we receive from the user will be
> fudged, so that user's "depth 1" that used to mean "the tip and one
> behind it" is expressed as "depth 2" at the end-user level, and we
> send over the wire the number that corresponded to the old "depth
> 1"), I do not think anything will break, and then --depth=0 may
> magically start meaning "only the tip; its immediate parents will
> not be transferred and recorded as the shallow boundary in the
> receiving repository".
>
> I do not mind carrying such a (technially) backward incompatible
> change in jn/clone-2.0-depth-off-by-one branch, keep it cooking in
> 'next' for a while and push it out together with other "2.0" topics
> in a future release ;-).
Speaking of --depth, I think in Git 2.0 we should fix the semantics
of "deepening" done with "git fetch".
Its "--depth" parameter is used to specify the new depth of the
history that you can tangle from the updated tip of remote tracking
branches, and it has a rather unpleasant ramifications.
Suppose you start from "git clone --depth=1 $there". You have the
today's snapshot, and one parent behind it. You keep working happily
with the code and then realize that you want to know a bit more
history behind the snapshot you started from.
(upstream)
---o---o---o---A---B
(you)
A---B
So you do:
$ git fetch --depth=3
(upstream)
---o---o---o---A---B---C---D---E---F---...---W---X---Y---Z
(you)
A---B W---X---Y---Z
But in the meantime, if the upstream accumulated 20+ commits, you
end up getting the commit at the updated tip of the upstream, and 3
generations of parents behind it. There will be a 10+ commit worth
of gap between the bottom of the new shallow history and the old tip
you have been working on, and the history becomes disjoint.
I think we need a protocol update to fix this; instead of sending
"Now I want your tips and N commits behind it, please update my
shallow bottom accordingly", which creates the above by giving you Z
and 3 generations back and updates your cut-off point to W, the
receiving end should be able to ask "I have a shallow history that
cuts off at these commits. I want to get the history leading up to
your tips, and also deepen the history further back from my current
cut-off points by N commits", so that you would instead end up with
something like this:
(you)
o---o---o---A---B---C---D---E---F---...---W---X---Y---Z
That is, truly "deepen my history by 3". We could call that "git
fetch --deepen=3" or something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-07 18:06 [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible Stefan Beller
2013-01-07 18:06 ` [PATCH] Documentation on depth option in git clone Stefan Beller
2013-01-08 6:28 ` [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-08 6:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-08 7:36 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-01-08 8:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-08 14:28 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-08 14:32 ` Stefan Beller
2013-01-08 14:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-08 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-08 7:38 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-08 8:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-28 9:18 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2013-05-28 16:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-05-28 16:31 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-05-28 16:34 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2013-05-28 16:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-05-28 17:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-30 8:23 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2013-06-02 19:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-09 13:35 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2013-07-11 10:57 ` Matthijs Kooijman
2013-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] upload-pack: Remove a piece of dead code Matthijs Kooijman
2013-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] upload-pack: Introduce new "fixed-off-by-one-depth" server feature Matthijs Kooijman
2013-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] fetch-pack: Request fixed-off-by-one-depth when available Matthijs Kooijman
2013-07-11 12:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] upload-pack: Remove a piece of dead code Duy Nguyen
2013-07-11 15:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-08 7:33 ` [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible Duy Nguyen
2013-01-08 7:37 ` Junio C Hamano
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