On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org> wrote: > 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?
When you use ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=DIR, you end up sharing the vast majority of the referenced .git/ directory. When you use a shallow clone, you actually consume *more* space: no sharing at all.
