Re: pushing from a shallow repo allowed?

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

2009/2/12 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>:
> git-clone(1):
>        A shallow repository has a number of
>        limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor
>        into it)
>
> This and other documentation (shallow.txt, RelNotes-1.5.0.txt) says you
> can't push from a shallow repo. But in a simple test of making a commit
> to a shallow repo and pushing it out, it seems to work. AFAICS, git only
> guards against pushes *into* a shallow repo, and fetching/cloning from a
> shallow repository.
>
> Are the docs out of date, or is there really still some problem
> with pushing from a shallow repo?

AFAIK, it will work in simple cases, but isn't guaranteed to work.

> BTW, --depth seems to be ignored when making a local clone.
> This seems to have been fixed in the old shell git-clone in
> d4110a9726c7cd5cda35b7dd03dc8f85fe3dff0c, was it accidentially lost
> in the C version?
>
> joey@gnu:~/src/other> git clone --depth 2 git git.shallow
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/joey/src/other/git.shallow/.git/
> joey@gnu:~/src/other> cd git.shallow
> joey@gnu:~/src/other/git.shallow> git-log --pretty=oneline|wc -l
> 17009
>
> git version 1.5.6.5

You most likely need to use the file:// syntax for this to work,
otherwise git will just hardlink/copy the whole objects dir without
looking at it.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson