From: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow clone
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:37:42 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1373607462-12836-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> (raw)
The document says one cannot push from a shallow clone. But that is
not true (maybe it was at some point in the past). The client does not
stop such a push nor does it give any indication to the receiver that
this is a shallow push. If the receiver accepts it, it's in.
Since 52fed6e (receive-pack: check connectivity before concluding "git
push" - 2011-09-02), receive-pack is prepared to deal with broken
push, a shallow push can't cause any corruption. Update the document
to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-clone.txt | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 450f158..85769b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -182,11 +182,13 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
--depth <depth>::
Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a
- number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
- it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you
- are only interested in the recent history of a large project
- with a long history, and would want to send in fixes
- as patches.
+ number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor
+ push into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in
+ the recent history of a large project with a long history.
++
+Pushing from a shallow clone should be avoided if the git version on
+the receiver end is older than v1.7.10, or any other git
+implementation that does not perform connectivity check.
--[no-]single-branch::
Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,
--
1.8.2.82.gc24b958
next reply other threads:[~2013-07-12 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-12 5:37 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [this message]
2013-07-12 5:53 ` [PATCH] git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow clone Junio C Hamano
2013-07-12 5:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-12 7:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-13 21:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-07-14 2:28 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-14 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-15 1:01 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-15 6:33 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-15 15:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-15 15:35 ` [PATCH] Revert "git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow clone" Junio C Hamano
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