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Re: cloning gnulib with --depth=2 option hangning
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: cloning gnulib with --depth=2 option hangning |
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:06:24 +0200 |
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Hi John,
> OK, but the build-aux/bootstrap script distributed with gnulib
> includes the code ...
> git clone -h 2>&1 | grep -- --depth > /dev/null && shallow='--depth 2'
> git clone $shallow git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib "$gnulib_path" ||
> ...
> Shouldn't the bootstrap script use the recommended way of cloning a
> fresh copy of gnulib?
The use of --depth was introduced in 2007:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-10/msg00435.html>
> In that case, it would be great if the --depth option worked... I seem to
> recall that it did in the past, so maybe this is a savannah problem.
Maybe. Jim?
Bruno
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