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I'm getting the following error when issuing the command git clone --bare /path/to/repo:
fatal: attempt to fetch/clone from a shallow repository
First, what is a shallow repository and why doesn't it let me clone it?
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If you have a problem cloning a repository, or using it once it has been created, check the following: Ensure that the user has gone through initial GitCentric login and has the correct username, email, and ssh. This should return a usage message that refers to the config-branch, config-repo, and ls-repo commands.
Shallow Cloning: Definition: "A shallow copy of an object copies the 'main' object, but doesn't copy the inner objects." When a custom object (eg. Employee) has just primitive, String type variables then you use Shallow Cloning.
Rename .git/shallow to something else, clone, rename it back, copy .git/shallow to cloned repository
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A shallow repository is a repository which does not contain the full history.
See the git-clone manpage:
--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.
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