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[libssh] fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 33100-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33100: [libssh] fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:01:07 -0400

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Hi Ludovic,

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> Perhaps just clearer messages would have helped here also ('Failed to do
>> a shallow git clone due to ~error message~, falling back to a full clone').
>
> I agree, and that’s something to suggest to the Git folks.  :-)

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?

[0001-build-git-fetch-Print-message-when-falling-back-to-a.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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Maxim

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