Revert "git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow clone"
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:31:52 +0000 (08:31 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:35:32 +0000 (08:35 -0700)
This reverts commit dacd2bcc414e0b7aac36aaa400da0a743c4741cc.

"It fails reliably without corrupting the receiving repository when
it should fail" may be better than the situation before the receiving
end was hardened recently, but the fact that sometimes the push does
not go through still remains. It is better to advice the users that
they cannot push from a shallow repository as a limitation before
they decide to use (or not to use) a shallow clone.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 85769b884e0f018c68fc0393d77b167a09d3ef44..450f158779fbfda31c0b3f85d4768a294ef782ef 100644 (file)
@@ -182,13 +182,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 --depth <depth>::
        Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
        specified number of revisions.  A shallow repository has a
-       number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor
-       push into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in
-       the recent history of a large project with a long history.
-+
-Pushing from a shallow clone should be avoided if the git version on
-the receiver end is older than v1.7.10, or any other git
-implementation that does not perform connectivity check.
+       number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
+       it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you
+       are only interested in the recent history of a large project
+       with a long history, and would want to send in fixes
+       as patches.
 
 --[no-]single-branch::
        Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,