Hi Ludovic,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

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>> Perhaps just clearer messages would have helped here also ('Failed to do
>> a shallow git clone due to ~error message~, falling back to a full clone').
>
> I agree, and that’s something to suggest to the Git folks.  :-)

Upon further inspection, we can do better on our side, specifically by
printing a message of the fallback occurring when calling git-fetch. The
patch below implements this simple change.

What do you think?