From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Bailey Subject: Re: Using git for file archival/backup purposes - deletion strategy Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:36:40 +0000 Message-ID: <4773D498.8040204@hashpling.org> References: <46a038f90712261443t6aa0cd76u46d8ae88fc7c1eba@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 27 17:37:28 2007 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 1J7vjP-0002OK-IB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:37:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751470AbXL0Qgq (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:36:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751335AbXL0Qgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:36:45 -0500 Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.134]:35615 "EHLO pih-relay08.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751432AbXL0Qgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:36:45 -0500 Received: from [212.159.69.125] (helo=hashpling.plus.com) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1J7vit-00088H-Dr; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:36:43 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.29] (heisenberg2.hashpling.org [192.168.1.29]) by hashpling.plus.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBRGaeS6005615; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:36:40 GMT User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <46a038f90712261443t6aa0cd76u46d8ae88fc7c1eba@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff wrote: > Ah! Local clones won't honour --depth!. A clone from git.kernel.org > does get its .git/shallow file. This should be fixed in git v1.5.4-rc0 and later. For reference what version of git are you using? Charles.