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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	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: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 14:38:27 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D9+KHT=YfU0+rPCbs+AwxQOpfKzPChDhk8d-MMkRzZug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vip78go6b.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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'd rather we reserve 0 for unlimited fetch, something we haven't done
so far [1]. And because "unlimited clone" with --depth does not make
sense, --depth=0 should be rejected by git-clone.

[1] If we don't want to break the protocol, we could make depth
0xffffffff a special value as "unlimited" for newer git. Older git
works most of the time, until some project exceeds 4G commit depth
history.
-- 
Duy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-08  7:39 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
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 [this message]
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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