Hi Jim, On Oct 29, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > However, isn't this based on the premise that shallow clones are > somehow useful?
Sure. Why copy 8000 changesets when you know for sure that you only care about the last 100 or so at the most? > Did you try the recommended procedure of > using a reference gnulib repository? E.g., > > ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib Certainly, but gnulib bootstrap is not capable of bootstrapping either libtool or m4, so I'm using my rewrite... > The shallow-clone hack is to accommodate those who want to do > a quick one-off bootstrap; imho, not appropriate for those of us who > run it frequently, or as a maintainer. Fair enough. It seems like I might have munged a code path in my bootstrap, since `./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib` seems to be making a shallow clone... which is clearly wrong. I'll fix that later, but for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4 gpgv). Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
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