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From: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: On --depth=funny value
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:38:54 +0100
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On 01/09/2013 03:53 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Can people sanity check the reasoning outlined here?  Anything I
> missed?
> 
> The above outline identifies three concrete tasks that different
> people can tackle more or less independently, each with updated
> code, documentation and test:
> 
>  1. "git fetch --unshallow" that gives a pretty surface on Duy's
>     "--depth=inf";
> 
>  2. Making "git fetch" and "git clone" die on "--depth=0" or
>     "--depth=-4";
> 
>  3 Updating "upload-pack" to count correctly.
> 
> I'll refrain from saying "Any takers?" for now.

Sorry for answering with delay, I am just contributing to git in my
spare time.
So if I understood Duy correctly, he is going to solve 1. and 3 by his
patches.
I'll try to come up with a solution for 2. within the next days.