Subject: Re: bug#33100: [libssh] fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:11:07 +0200

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Upon further inspection, we can do better on our side, specifically by
> printing a message of the fallback occurring when calling git-fetch. The
> patch below implements this simple change.
>
> What do you think?
>
> From 06ba66d1949ba59573518f471ad3cbacefea6ea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:49:50 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] build: git-fetch: Print message when falling back to a full
>  checkout.
>
> Otherwise the user might believe that git-fetch stalled, observing the lack of
> output following a 'fatal' git error message (see:
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/33100).
>
> * guix/build/git.scm (git-fetch): Print message when falling back to a full
> checkout.

Oh indeed, I had overlooked that.

Go for it!

Thanks,
Ludo’.