Re: git hang-ups

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:18:20PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
> 
> Graham Percival wrote:
> 
> > If you do restart, try the
> >   git clone --depth 1 git://URL
> > method.  (the CG will probably be updated to use this method in a
> > week or so)
> 
> it seems that this method is not suitable for developers with
> push access. You can't push from it -- see below.

I've done it.

> --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 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.

I read that before, but I tried it anyway.  git push was just
fine.  I was using git 1.5.6.5.  I'll double-check in a few days,
before changing the CG.

In short: buggered if I can figure out how to use git.  :/

Cheers,
- Graham