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=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: shallow clones, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:59:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <7vvekoyb79.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <87zma06ptm.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:59:47 +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: <87zma06ptm.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> 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 dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsKiu-0002c5-VG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:59:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1032285AbWLGO7m (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:59:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1032286AbWLGO7l (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:59:41 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47135 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1032285AbWLGO7l (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:59:41 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Dec 2006 14:59:39 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO dumbo2) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 07 Dec 2006 15:59:39 +0100 To: Alexandre Julliard Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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