shallow clones are bad? [LWN.net]

shallow clones are bad?

Posted Sep 1, 2026 11:48 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: shallow clones are bad? by mricon
Parent article: Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies

For CI builds I've been recommending --filter=tree:0 to avoid issues with git describe and other history issues. Is that more economical on the server side? Just curious.

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shallow clones are bad?

Posted Sep 1, 2026 14:06 UTC (Tue) by mricon (subscriber, #59252) [Link] (1 responses)

If it's just a single system doing CI, we're fine with whatever legitimate things you're doing with git. If, however, you're doing CI at any kind of scale, please set up your own mirror, don't hammer the public resource.

shallow clones are bad?

Posted Sep 1, 2026 14:58 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

I'm not asking about hitting your servers specifically. I was only trying to leverage your git server expertise.