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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-06-19 13:51:56 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-06-20 11:35:28 -0700 |
| commit | 18a74a092bff41f1ffe10bd2463d3eed9a04435d (patch) | |
| tree | 508b2f5bbad1fdf44e41f23c48dc5e14f2983d38 /Documentation/git-clone.txt | |
| parent | d22eb044750631f30bdbfc3dc42d684e73d18ddc (diff) | |
| download | git-18a74a092bff41f1ffe10bd2463d3eed9a04435d.tar.gz | |
clone: do not let --depth imply --shallow-submodules
In v2.9.0, we prematurely flipped the default to force cloning
submodules shallowly, when the superproject is getting cloned
shallowly. This is likely to fail when the upstream repositories
submodules are cloned from a repository that is not prepared to
serve histories that ends at a commit that is not at the tip of a
branch, and we know the world is not yet ready.
Use a safer default to clone the submodules fully, unless the user
tells us that she knows that the upstream repository of the
submodules are willing to cooperate with "--shallow-submodules"
option.
Noticed-by: Vadim Eisenberg <VADIME@il.ibm.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-clone.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index e1a21b7de1..c5a1ce2f59 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -192,9 +192,8 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions. Implies `--single-branch` unless `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the - tips of all branches. This implies `--shallow-submodules`. If - you want to have a shallow superproject clone, but full submodules, - also pass `--no-shallow-submodules`. + tips of all branches. If you want to clone submodules shallowly, + also pass `--shallow-submodules`. --[no-]single-branch:: Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, |