On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Alexander Gladysh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Makes sense -- just comitted use of --depth=1 and removal of .git when fetching. -- Hisham _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
