[Slackbuilds-users] Request for shallow Git clone support over HTTPS

[Christoph Willing]

On 12/9/26 09:50, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>> Would it be possible to enable shallow git clones over HTTPS for
>> the SlackBuilds
>> repository?
>>
>> I develop an SBo package manager, and recently added support for
>> shallow clones since
>> it only needs the current contents of a branch. Avoiding the repos
>> long history reduces
>> download sizes and disk usage.
>>
>> However, currently this command:
>>
>>   git clone --depth=1 https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/
>>   
>> Fails with:
>>
>>   fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities
> i tested
> git clone --depth=1 git://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds.git
>
> it works just fine

I'm also seeing the same problem:

chris at d10:/mnt/scratch$ git clone --depth=1 
https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds
Cloning into 'slackbuilds'...
fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities
chris at d10:/mnt/scratch$