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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New portage git sync behavior
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 21:20:48
Message-Id: 41178b62-f9e8-b0a7-960a-378c2c443620@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New portage git sync behavior by Mike Gilbert
1 On 09/20/2016 08:02 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > Portage 2.3.1 changes the default behavior for git repositories to
3 > sync with a depth of 1. If you are using a development tree with
4 > emerge --sync, you may want to override this in repos.conf by setting
5 > sync-depth = 0.
6 >
7 > If you have accidentally converted your development tree into a
8 > shallow repository, you can undo the damage by running git fetch
9 > --unshallow.
10 >
11
12 I've proposed to revert the change in behavior because we've had too
13 many problems with it:
14
15 https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/e0314d5c748ec4098605c20d9b42b2a9
16 --
17 Thanks,
18 Zac