Re: Issue with the git repositories
Luís Oliveira <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.common-lisp-net.devel |
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"Mario S. Mommer" <[email protected]> writes: > the problem is that a shallow fetch implies that a temporary file has > to be written into the repository *by git-daemon*. Obviously, and for > good reason, we didn't give git-daemon those permissions and I don't > think we should. I expect the shallow fetch to work over ssh (can you > confirm?). I will try at home later today when I have access to my SSH key. Thanks for the quick response! > There is a recentish patch addressing this behavior (bug?) here: > > http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/PATCH-upload-pack-allow-shallow-fetching-from-a-read-only-repository-td7604326.html > > How much of an issue is this for you? I don't think this is a big issue. This came up in the context of automated testing using Travis CI. Since test runs start off from a pristine Linux installation, every run involves cloning repositories. I was doing a shallow clone in the hope it would be more efficient. I didn't even measure if it helped at all. Cheers, Luís