On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 07:26, Alexandre Erwin Ittner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hisham <[email protected]> wrote
>> Sounds like a good idea, but the "in modern versions at least" bit >> made me wary. (I'd prefer avoiding it if it's a recent feature, >> because I don't want to have to start replying "upgrade your git" to >> people. :) ) > I do not see any big problem here, since the support for shallow clones > was added in Git 1.5.0 (ca. Feb 2007). It is a very long time for the > typical Git user and I think people used to build source rocks from the > VCS will not be using such an ancient version now. I do not see a problem either. (After all, it is easy to make this feature configurable and detect git version in ./configure.) Also, you don't want to try to support anything below Git 1.5.0. This is really ancient history. Alexander. _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
