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

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Teemu Likonen [off-list ref] wrote:

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

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$ 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

Thanks, Teemu. file:///path/to/git-full works.