[Nix-dev] Re: Use shallow copying in fetchgit

Peter Simons simons at cryp.to
Thu Jul 21 00:21:25 CEST 2011


Hi Marc,

 > At least in the past there was an issue: You could'nt tell git "check
 > out rev XY". So you had to get trunk and go some revs back. If you use
 > shallow 1 its very unlikely that trunk is exactly the hash which was
 > comitted to nixpkgs.

ah, I see. That would be a problem indeed. Thanks for the explanation.

Take care,
Peter




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