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Comment by roncesvalles

6 hours ago

How would shallow clone be more stressful for GitHub than a regular clone?

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enchilada  6 hours ago

Shallow clones (and the resulting lack of shared history data) break many assumptions that packfile optimisations rely on.

See also: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/225

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