Subject: Re: Does cloning a shallow repo require special setting in the cloned one?

From: Teemu Likonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:34:51 +0200

On 2009-02-25 19:49 (-0800), roylee17 wrote:

> $ git clone --depth 1 git-full git-shallow2
> 'git log' still gives a full history
>
> Why can't I clone a shallow repo from the git-full?
> Does it requires some settings in the git-full repo?

I don't know the "why" part but using file:// URL should work:

    git clone --depth 1 file:///path/to/git-full git-shallow2