From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adeodato =?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: document that pushing from a shallow clone may work Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:19:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20090304101939.GA7142@chistera.yi.org> References: <237967ef0902160200r2320687ai71e62047c3ead9ad@mail.gmail.com> <1236080017-13987-1-git-send-email-dato@net.com.org.es> <49AD1B22.6050201@viscovery.net> <20090303120856.GB15003@chistera.yi.org> <76718490903031127v7fcec124je7292c4c465208b8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, Mikael Magnusson , Joey Hess To: Jay Soffian X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 04 11:21:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LeoDu-00014B-6f for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:21:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754742AbZCDKTn convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 05:19:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754592AbZCDKTn (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 05:19:43 -0500 Received: from 226.Red-80-25-139.staticIP.rima-tde.net ([80.25.139.226]:4686 "EHLO etc.inittab.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754492AbZCDKTm (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 05:19:42 -0500 Received: from justin (unknown [192.168.254.34]) by etc.inittab.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E76801C072; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:19:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from userid 1000 by justin with local (Exim 4.69) id 1LeoCR-0001s3-1n; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:19:39 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <76718490903031127v7fcec124je7292c4c465208b8@mail.gmail.com> X-No-CC: Please respect my Mail-Followup-To header User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Jay Soffian [Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:27:29 -0500]: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Adeodato Sim=C3=B3 wrote: > > Well, I don't know if the set of cases where it'll work can be defi= ned > > in detail to a point where it is useful. If it is, then sure, let's= do > > it. > > My point is that if it will work in some cases, then the documentat= ion > > should *acknowledge that fact*, because else people will assume the > > documentation is wrong, and believe it is intended to work, which i= s not > > the case. > Wy not just say "pushing into a shallow repository is not supported" > instead of "pushing into a shallow repository won't work." I don't think such a wording is enough (adjusted, of course, to be abou= t pushing from, not to, which is the case at hand). But I'll try to stay silent, and see if Junio has an opinion on the matter. Thanks, --=20 Adeodato Sim=C3=B3 dato at net.com.= org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.or= g =20 - Oh my God, you're pimping me out for a new roof? - And windows! -- Andrew and Bree Van De Kamp