From: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
To: Gulshan Singh <gsingh2011@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why can't I push from a shallow clone?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:55:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130726065528.GA4940@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZYrdsCgH+3NnZnnmsn_znt=+01aNn02u4mWyb3td9XypUog@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 07:33:16PM -0700, Gulshan Singh wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out why I can't push from a shallow clone
> (using --depth) to a repository. I've made simple examples where it
> works, but I've read that in doesn't work in every case. However, I
> can't come up with a case where it doesn't work. Googling gives this
> answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6900103/why-cant-i-push-from-a-shallow-clone,
> but I don't completely understand the explanation, so I was hoping
> someone could explain it.
I can't explain it better than what Junio did in the link you just
provide. However there's ongoing work to allow shallow clones to be able
to push. You can read about it here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/230612/focus=230878
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-26 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-26 2:33 Why can't I push from a shallow clone? Gulshan Singh
2013-07-26 6:55 ` Fredrik Gustafsson [this message]
2013-07-26 19:12 ` Gulshan Singh
2013-07-26 21:48 ` Philip Oakley
2013-07-26 9:38 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
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