Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Stefan Beller [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Philip Oakley [off-list ref] wrote:

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A possible idea is to add a date based variant of shallow clone :

 'git clone --date <when> ...'

in the same vein as the existing depth (shallow) clone.

As food for thought:
Maybe broaden this further up to the git-ish way of describing refs, so

    git clone --since 2.weeks.ago <url>
    git clone --since v2.10 <url>
    git clone --since c0ffee^^ <url>

would all equally work?

Yes, and we could generalize it further: add shallow-rev-list
capability and send "shallow-rev-list <rev-list options and _some_
rev>" line to define shallow boundary. The protocol change would be
simple enough. The hard part is select a safe subset of rev-list
options that can be used in this mode and reject the rest.

I am not sure if that is feasible though, but it would come in handy. (E.g.
you are an end user and want to bisect down a bug which you notice in the
new version X but not in old version Y, so you start on getting the sources,
compiling, bisecting)

-- 
Duy