Shallow branches - some thoughts

[Paul Moore]

On 13/03/2008, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> How is this different from a "full" branch where you don't have commit
> access? What do you want to behave different?

It doesn't take hours to download thousands of historical revisions
that I don't care about :-)

The point is that it doesn't behave any differently in practical
terms. The places where the lack of full history might matter (e.g.
push) aren't possible in a read-only environment.

Paul