Eelco Dolstra
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If you do a fetchTree on a Git repository, whether the result contains a revCount attribute should not depend on whether that repository happens to be a shallow clone or not. That would complicate caching a lot and would be semantically messy. So applying fetchTree/fetchGit to a shallow repository is now an error unless you pass the attribute 'shallow = true'. If 'shallow = true', we don't return revCount, even if the repository is not actually shallow. Note that Nix itself is not doing shallow clones at the moment. But it could do so as an optimisation if the user specifies 'shallow = true'. Issue #2988.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
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