On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:59:50PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> 
> > I think it's worth adding, but as an option, because there are Git
> > server implementations, like JGit, that don't support shallow cloning.
> 
> Thanks for that!  I didn't consider that before...
> 
> Possible patch (do you know such servers and can test whether they still work?):

I think that Google's public-facing Git servers use JGit. So, perhaps
try shallow cloning Chromium and see if it works.