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Why can't I push from a shallow clone in Git

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I've been trying to figure out why I can't push from a shallow clone (using --depth) to a repository. I've made simple examples where it works, but I've read that in doesn't work in every case. However, I can't come up with a case where it doesn't work. Googling gives this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6900103/why-cant-i-push-from-a-shallow-clone,

but I don't completely understand the explanation,Please explain.

posted Jul 26, 2013 by Ahmed Patel

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I can't explain it better than what Junio did in the link you just provide. However there's ongoing work to allow shallow clones to be able to push. You can read about it here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/230612/focus=230878

answer Jul 26, 2013 by Mandeep Sehgal
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See also this thread [1] which originated from this SO question [2].

  1. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/221634
  2. http://stackoverflow.com/q/16077691/720999
answer Jul 26, 2013 by Salil Agrawal
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