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

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Paul Wise [Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:30:13 +0900]:

> 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).

Thanks for pointing that out: I stand corrected, it seems to work
indeed. (Which is awesome, and makes Git's standing on this comparison
much better IMHO.)

I was guiding myself from the documentation, not having used shallow
clones myself. From git-clone(1):

  A shallow repository has a number of limitations (you cannot clone
  or fetch from it, nor push from nor into it) [...]
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Can you confirm whether my reading of the underlined part was correct in
assuming it meant you couldn't push from a shallow clone to a full clone?

I'll mail upstream about this.

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