Using Git-upload-pack for a simpler CI integration

Re:Using Git-upload-pack for a simpler CI integration by jmholla on Saturday May 10, 2025 @05:12AM (#43944282)

I'm confused. Git does have built-in support for shallow clones:

    git clone --depth=1 $repository

will only fetch the latest versions of files.

You can even use the `--filter=tree:0` option to `git clone` with `git sparse-checkout` to only fetch subsets of the repository.

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Re:Using Git-upload-pack for a simpler CI integration by tdrhq on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:28AM (#43944572)

Yes, but our SaaS tool required our customers to not use sparse or shallow checkouts since we needed the git commit-graph.

Using upload-pack allowed us to remove that constraint, since even in a shallow clone we can still get the commit graph via SSH from the remote.

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Re:Using Git-upload-pack for a simpler CI integration by jmholla on Saturday May 10, 2025 @01:26PM (#43947324)

But your post seemed to indicate you already had access to the commit graph. Is this just about getting that information without depending on APIs?

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