From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: (guix git-download) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:23:03 -0500 Message-ID: <20170122232303.GA27876@jasmine> References: <87h94qhnzt.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVRTb-0000mC-ES for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:23:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVRTX-0007Ov-Ff for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:23:11 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:50699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVRTW-0007Ol-Pf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:23:07 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87h94qhnzt.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 07:51:34PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > I'd like to change the git-download so that it supports > shallow-clone by default. I think this is the right default choice. We would have to make it possible to disable in our client, because not all Git servers support shallow cloning.