On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > >> I filed a bug in Bugzilla so we can track this: >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46041 > > Platonides figured it out. Incredibly enough, in the half-sub-sub-version > delta from 1.7.9.5 to 1.7.10, the behavior of git-clone was fixed so that it > only fetches a single branch rather than all. > > The workaround for git <1.7.10 is: > > mkdir core; cd core > git init > git fetch --depth=1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git > master:refs/remotes/origin/master >
This totally doesn't surprise me at all. Version numbers in Git don't reflect any sort of reality in terms of features or things to look forward to--if memory serves, a series of really bad performance regressions (and fixes) were introduced in the course of just 1.6.x.y. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
