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Not possible, due to the way how git works: It's a merkle tree of commits, where each of these commits point to a file tree (content-addressed by the hash) and
by phil-m 4y ago
Not possible, due to the way how git works:
It's a merkle tree of commits, where each of these commits point to a file tree (content-addressed by the hash) and the previous commit
- iudqnolq 4y agoNo, creating a git commit merely requires knowing the current state of all the files and the hash of the previous commit. You don't need the actual contents of the previous commits. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects Pushing from a shallow clone to a remote is more complex, but is supported in modern git versions. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6900428 https://stackoverflow.com/a/6900428