Re: What's in git.git

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, David Lang wrote:

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

[pu]

 Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top
 of 'master' although I haven't done so yet.  As he said
 himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for
 such a feature to raise hands.

I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I understand it to
be (the ability to get a partial repository from upstream and work normally
from there with the result of data-mineing tools sometimes reporting 'that's
part of the truncated history' if they hit the cutoff) consider my hand
raised.

For now, it does not say "part of the truncated history". But yes, shallow 
clones are partial copies of remote repositories, by making some commits 
"shallow", i.e. grafting an empty set of parents onto them (thereby 
pretending that these commits are root commits).

Telling the user that a commit is shallow should not be too hard.

Ciao,
Dscho