shallow clones, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Alexandre Julliard wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> * js/shallow (Fri Nov 24 16:00:13 2006 +0100)
> >> 
> >>  Probably with a better documentation of its limitations and caveats, 
> >>  this should be mergeable to 'master'.
> >
> > The more I see the missing reaction, the less sure I am this is a sensible 
> > thing to do.
> 
> I'm not sure what reaction you expect, but this is something a lot of 
> our occasional Wine users are requesting. The Wine full history is 80Mb, 
> and that's a big download if you just want to try a quick patch. Now of 
> course you won't see these users around here hacking on shallow clone, 
> most likely they just went and downloaded Wine from the CVS mirror 
> instead. But it's a shame to have to maintain a CVS mirror just for that 
> purpose...

Sorry, I was just mumbling about the fact that I would _like_ to hear back 
about successes and failures. If there are problems I want to fix them.

So, do you actually know of people who _used_ (as opposed to "tested") 
shallow clones?

Ciao,
Dscho