v1.5.0 release notes draft updates.
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -215,3 +215,27 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
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- Better error messages for often used Porcelainish commands.
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+* Shallow clones
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+ - There is a partial support for 'shallow' repositories that
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+ keeps only recent history now. A 'shallow clone' is created
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+ by specifying how deep that truncated history should be.
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+ Currently a shallow repository has number of limitations:
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+ - Cloning and fetching _from_ a shallow clone are not
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+ supported (nor tested -- so they might work by accident but
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+ they are not expected to).
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+ - Pushing from nor into a shallow clone are not expected to
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+ work.
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+ - Merging inside a shallow repository would work as long as a
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+ merge base is found in the recent history, but otherwise it
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+ will be like merging unrelated histories and may result in
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+ huge conflicts.
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+ but this would be more than adequate for people who want to
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+ look at near the tip of a big project with a deep history and
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+ send patches in e-mail format.