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Reputation: 69954

How can I tell the depth of a git repository?

A script I am debugging is supposed to use --depth 1 when cloning a git repository in order to avoid downloading all its history. However, I suspect it might be buggy and that it is actually performing a full clone.

How can I inspect the resulting repository to determine if it was cloned with --depth 1 or not?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1143

Answers (2)

René Link
René Link

Reputation: 51423

After you made a shallow clone --depth 1 use

git rev-list --count --all

if it outputs 1 you only have 1 commit in the object database.

Does the script use the --no-single-branch option? This would explain why git fetches multiple commits (each for every branch or tag)

Upvotes: 2

Ry-
Ry-

Reputation: 225064

If the contents of .git/shallow are the same as git rev-parse HEAD, the depth is 1.

Upvotes: 3

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