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.

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