How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 26 18:55:20 UTC 2021


On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 12:10, Helge Oldach <freebsd at oldach.net> wrote:
>
> A shallow tree is about 1.6G. If you want to patch source (say, from
> a SA or EN) you certainly also need space for an object tree which is
> about 4.5G. The total is >6G.
>
> I'd say relative to the total required to build, the 1.1G "savings" from
> using a shallow versus a full tree (which is about 2.7G) isn't really
> worth the effort. Plus, you get the a few benefits like full commit
> history including comments.

Indeed, this is a good point. We can update docs to state:

At present a full clone is required to include the commit count in
uname. An existing shallow clone can be converted into a full clone by
running

% git fetch --unshallow


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