Re: Grafts workflow for a "shallow" repository...?

["Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>]

On 2008.09.15 23:25:10 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here is my attempt at a "let's publish a shallow repository for branch
> >> of moodle". Let me show you what I did...
> > ...
> >>  # 1.7 was a significant release, anything earlier than that
> >>  # is just not interesting -- even for pickaxe/annotate purposes
> >>  # so add a graft point right at the branching point.
> > ...
> >> Is this kind of workflow (or a variation of it) supported? For this to
> >> work, we should communicate the grafts in some push operations and
> >> read them in clone ops - and perhaps in fetch too.
> > ...
> > I think that in this case the best thing to do is give users
> > a shell script that does roughly:
> >
> > 	git init
> > 	echo $BASE >.git/info/grafts
> > 	git remote add -f origin $url
> > 	git checkout -b master origin/master
> >
> > Sign the script, and let users verify it before executing.  You may
> > also want a script to drag in the history behind by removing the
> > graft and fetching $BASE^, but that is hard because your repository
> > already "has" that.
> 
> Why not just filter-branch _once at the origin_ and publish the result?

I think the idea was to have a shallow clone starting at a certain
point, as opposed to the --depth option, where you cannot specify a
starting point, but only the depth of the clone.

Björn