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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Submodules: have a depth field in the .gitmodules file
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 15:44:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZOmqcB_q48upzpEnF6Lb9wqt2NMOBhTH7EvE5LfAqabg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqeg8pzrsu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> Sometimes the history of a submodule is not considered important by
>> the projects upstream. To make it easier for downstream users, allow
>> a field 'submodule.<name>.depth' in .gitmodules, which can be used
>> to indicate the recommended depth.
>
> Hmph.  I can understand and certainly agree with the first sentence,
> but I am not sure if "depth", if it is anything other than "1" or
> "infinity", is a reasonable value.
>
> I'd understand if a project wants to say something like "at this
> moment, history before v2.0 tag does not matter", though.

I fell for the trap, like all depth related problems fall into.
I came up with the easiest solution to be implemented into Git,
not what the user actually wants.

Background for this change is trying to get a similar thing like the
"clone-depth"
field from repo manifests implemented into Git.
And looking at e.g. [1], this is either non existent (infinity) or 1.
So maybe instead of giving a depth recommendation in the .gitmodules,
we only fill in a boolean config "[non]shallow" which defaults to non shallow
in case of not giving the field.

Thanks,
Stefan



[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest/+/master/default.xml

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-25 22:00 [PATCH 0/3] Submodules: have a depth field in the .gitmodules file Stefan Beller
2016-05-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] submodule update: make use of the existing fetch_in_submodule function Stefan Beller
2016-05-25 22:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-25 22:45     ` Stefan Beller
2016-05-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] submodule-config: keep `depth` around Stefan Beller
2016-05-25 22:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] submodule update: learn `--recommended-depth` option Stefan Beller
2016-05-25 22:38 ` [PATCH 0/3] Submodules: have a depth field in the .gitmodules file Junio C Hamano
2016-05-25 22:44   ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2020-08-02 15:14 ` medoo

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