From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: What's in git.git Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:25:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <7v8ximwrm3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-X-Sender: gene099@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjNlg-0003ew-VT for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:25:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753375AbWKLWZc (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:25:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753370AbWKLWZc (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:25:32 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:21180 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753375AbWKLWZc (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:25:32 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2006 22:25:30 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO dumbo2) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 12 Nov 2006 23:25:30 +0100 To: David Lang Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, David Lang wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > [pu] > > > > Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top > > of 'master' although I haven't done so yet. As he said > > himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for > > such a feature to raise hands. > > I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I understand it to > be (the ability to get a partial repository from upstream and work normally > from there with the result of data-mineing tools sometimes reporting 'that's > part of the truncated history' if they hit the cutoff) consider my hand > raised. For now, it does not say "part of the truncated history". But yes, shallow clones are partial copies of remote repositories, by making some commits "shallow", i.e. grafting an empty set of parents onto them (thereby pretending that these commits are root commits). Telling the user that a commit is shallow should not be too hard. Ciao, Dscho