On 2024-04-02 16:44:54 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: [...] > I think a shallow clone of depth 1 is sufficient, although that's not > sufficient to get the correct version number from Git in all cases. [...]
Some tools (python3-reno, for example) want to inspect the commits and historical tags on branches, in order to do things like assembling release notes documents. I don't know if any reno-using projects packaged in Debian get release notes included, but if they do then shallow clones would break that process. The python3-pbr plugin also wants to look at commit messages on the current branch since the most recent tag if its SemVer-based version-guessing kicks in (typically if the current commit isn't tagged and the version string hasn't been overridden with an envvar). -- Jeremy Stanley
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