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

[Matteo Bernardini]

hi Nicholas!

if you need to do a shallow clone via http you could, in alternative, use
also one of our mirrors, like

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SlackBuildsOrg/slackbuilds.git

Matteo


Il giorno sab 12 set 2026 alle ore 01:26 Nicholas Hubbard <
nicholashubbard at posteo.net> ha scritto:

> Hello! I hope this is the correct list to post this on.
>
> 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
>
> It looks like the HTTPS endpoint uses Git’s “dumb HTTP”
> transport. Would you consider
> enabling read-only smart HTTP access, perhaps through Git’s
> git-http-backend? Smart
> HTTP supports shallow clones, allowing clients to download a
> branch’s current contents
> without its full history. My understanding is that smart HTTP can
> be enabled at the
> existing URL while preserving support for older clients through
> the dumb HTTP transport.
>
> Thanks for considering this and thanks for maintaining
> SlackBuilds.org!
> --
> Nicholas B. Hubbard
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