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

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:15:23 -0400

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 09:01:07AM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> 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.

I like it, but it doesn't seem to actually print anything for me when I
trigger the failing case, for example by fetching the libssh source over
HTTP.