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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] shallow clones over http
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:03:10 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:48:51PM +0000, Tom wrote:

> The problem occurs to me also when I want to "deepen" a shallow clone of
> MediaWiki via https://
> 
>  git clone --depth 1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git
>  git pull --depth=99999
> 
> fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list.
> 
> Perhaps it helps someone to find the reason.
> 
> UPDATE:
> 
> This however works
> 
>  git clone --depth=2 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git
>  git fetch --depth=5

Yes, I experienced the same thing. I don't think the problem is related
to the depth per se, but rather the particular pattern of ACKs that
upload-pack sends based on which commits are being selected.

-Peff