Don't use shallow clones

[sheerun]

I've got similar issues to this one: Homebrew/legacy-homebrew@8a1c2ec

Please, disable shallow cloning, the download time doesn't take much longer.

[Shougo]

dimitri/el-get#915

I implemented shallow clone after read above thread.
Please describe the problem to me.

[sheerun]

The problem persists for example with ack.vim plugin. The error message says:

fatal: git fetch-pack: expected shallow list  

Quick test that fails:

git clone https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim --depth=1 && 
  cd ack.vim && 
  git fetch --depth=10 && git fetch --depth=10

But this one succeeds:

git clone https://github.com/mileszs/apidock.vim.git --depth=1 && 
  cd apidock.vim && 
  git fetch --depth=10 && git fetch --depth=10

The problem persists in about 10% of repositories, what makes dealing with such repos unreliable.

Note: I've send this issue to Github, but don't count on quick fix.

Moreover there is no quick and reliable way to convert shallow repo to full one, so I can make changes. Shallow repo always will be shallow, even when all commits are fetched with --depth=1000000 for example.

[Shougo]

OK. I disabled shallow clones.

[MarcWeber]

Time heavily depends on amount of history. History can be fetched by git fetch --depth=99999 easily later.

[MarcWeber]

VAM has been using shallow clones for a long time - no issues were reported.

[Shougo]

Yes, you are lucky. But it is not solved the problem.
You should search "expected shallow list" error message in search engines.

[Shougo]

I cannot reproduce the problem in git 2.6.2...
It is resolved?