[Kde-scm-interest] [Kde-games-devel] Data files and the Git move

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:52:16PM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> I've always wondered why pushing from a shallow clone didn't work. It's the 
> client (the shallow repo) that decides what objects to send and it has all the 
> objects it needs. Isn't it?
> 
one would think so ...

> I understand why you can never update it (fetch into it), since the remote may 
> conclude that it doesn't need to send some objects.
> 
because it might assume that objects which should be reachable from the
old heads need not be transferred? changing this sounds like a simple
protocol extension to me ...