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git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow clone
The document says one cannot push from a shallow clone. But that is not true (maybe it was at some point in the past). The client does not stop such a push nor does it give any indication to the receiver that this is a shallow push. If the receiver accepts it, it's in. Since 52fed6e (receive-pack: check connectivity before concluding "git push" - 2011-09-02), receive-pack is prepared to deal with broken push, a shallow push can't cause any corruption. Update the document to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
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specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a
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number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
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it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you
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are only interested in the recent history of a large project
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with a long history, and would want to send in fixes
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as patches.
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number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor
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push into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in
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the recent history of a large project with a long history.
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Pushing from a shallow clone should be avoided if the git version on
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the receiver end is older than v1.7.10, or any other git
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implementation that does not perform connectivity check.
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--[no-]single-branch::
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Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,

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