shallow clones, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Alexandre Julliard wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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* 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