Hi Glenn, In this thread, on 2021-10-24 I replied: > > I'm thinking of replacing the current comment with > > something along the lines of: > > > > Git does not support cloning by commit hash. So attempt a shallow > > fetch by commit hash to minimize the amount of data downloaded and > > changes needed to be processed, which can drastically reduce download > > and processing time for checkout. If the fetch by commit fails, a > > shallow fetch can not be performed because we do not know what the > > depth of the commit is without fetching all commits. So fallback to > > fetching all commits. > > That's a good comment. Thanks.
There's no other objection to your patch. Can you repost it, with the comment added? Then it can go in, I would say. Simon explained that there is a Gitlab specific workaround to the problem. But IMO if we have a general one that works also on Savannah, GitHub, etc., the better. Bruno
