Re: Bzr lightweight checkout, bzr shallow branches, and git

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> wrote:

> 3. Git
> ======
>
> Git has shallow clones, created with the --depth option for git-clone.
> This cut-offs the history of the project past a certain point, but the
> result is lacking: mainly, you cannot push your changes back. (You can
> do local commits however, and you can create patches for this in the
> normal Git workflow.)

This is wrong, you most certainly *can* push from a shallow clone to a
full clone. I think you cannot (yet) push to a shallow clone though
(haven't tried it myself).

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pabs

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