From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080909132212.GA25476@cuci.nl> <20080909194354.GA13634@cuci.nl> <20080909235848.GE7459@cuci.nl> <48C785C3.9010204@gnu.org> <48C7E9A1.5080409@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Stephen R. van den Berg" , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Paolo Bonzini X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 10 17:45:06 2008 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 1KdRsP-0004gD-00 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:45:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752556AbYIJPn4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:43:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752216AbYIJPn4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:43:56 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35994 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752150AbYIJPnz (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:43:55 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m8AFhQMC005417 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:43:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m8AFhPp5013154; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:43:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: <48C7E9A1.5080409@gnu.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.937 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > I think that shallow clones are not any different from this. If the > required piece of history is there, cool. If they're not there, no big > deal. Sure. I don't use them either. But because I don't use them, it doesn't affect me. It also doesn't change the core git data structures in any way to introduce any new problems. Also, if there isn't a required piece of history, things generally break very loudly. IOW, there are only certain things you can do with a shallow repo. In general it's absolutely _not_ a "no big deal" issue, quite the reverse - it's a deal-breaker. Linus