[Users] ETK Maxwell checkout failing for McLachlan, KrancNumericalTools

[Ian Hinder]

On 23 May 2012, at 20:10, Erik Schnetter wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>> 
>> On 23 May 2012, at 17:40, Bruno C. Mundim wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Beany/Ian:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I wonder if for some reason your new version of Git is honouring the shallow clone option (--depth 1), whereas my old version is not.  I'm not sure why we do a shallow clone by default;
>>> 
>>> People were concerned with the size of the git repos and how slow would
>>> be to check them out. So there was a decision towards checking out
>>> shallow git repos.
>> 
>> Was this based on actual experience?  I find the git repositories to be very fast to check out (and I am in Europe) in comparison to the glacially slow process of checking out a hundred separate SVN repositories one by one.
> 
> If I recall correctly, this was more of a safety decision that a
> benchmarked decision.

OK, in that case I think it is unnecessary, and should be reverted.  I don't like shallow clones.

> The reasoning went something like "with an
> anonymous checkout you can't commit anyway, so a shallow checkout
> suffices". We were not aware of any negative effect of shallow clones.

With an anonymous checkout, you can commit and push.  You have to add the correct URL to push to: git push <url>, but you can still push.  This is a lot easier than checking out your Cactus tree again in non-anonymous mode.

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Ian Hinder
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