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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail•com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: shallow clones, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:42:56 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45793AA8.8010704@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612071557580.28348@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>.
>> 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.
> 
>>


How about this. This is already reported 

kvaneesh@kvaneesh-laptop:/tmp$git clone --depth 2 /home/opensource/git git.test
.....
 100% (743/743) done


kvaneesh@kvaneesh-laptop:/tmp$cd git.test/
[master@git•test]$ git fsck-objects



[master@git•test]$ git fetch --depth 4
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 872 objects.
...
 100% (1/1) done
Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking 1 objects
 100% (1/1) done


[master@git•test]$ git fsck-objects
dangling commit aca085e577688108a2480b96a2f7077424a74e4d
dangling commit b360cca0b100e14abffa4cae78521b493c783738
dangling commit cd976f5c52694acb4b23c3f2425ed4f0a47ec799

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-08 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-06 21:19 What's cooking in git.git (topics) Junio C Hamano
2006-12-06 21:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-06 22:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-06 23:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-07  9:03   ` Alexandre Julliard
2006-12-07 14:59     ` shallow clones, was " Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-07 16:44       ` Alexandre Julliard
2006-12-08 10:12       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2006-12-07 17:49   ` Andy Parkins

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