On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 12:10, Helge Oldach <[email protected]> wrote: > > A shallow tree is about 1.6G. If you want to patch source (say, from > a SA or EN) you certainly also need space for an object tree which is > about 4.5G. The total is >6G. > > I'd say relative to the total required to build, the 1.1G "savings" from > using a shallow versus a full tree (which is about 2.7G) isn't really > worth the effort. Plus, you get the a few benefits like full commit > history including comments.
Indeed, this is a good point. We can update docs to state: At present a full clone is required to include the commit count in uname. An existing shallow clone can be converted into a full clone by running % git fetch --unshallow _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
