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		Timwi 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 ... This seems like a bug to me. Even if the previous commit is “mangled” as they call it, there's no reason why you can't diff against it and only send the diff.

gbin 10 months ago [–]

I believe this is because the generated unique id of that node is derived from the link to its parent: https://gist.github.com/masak/2415865

So the "where to attach it to the tree" info is effectively lost.

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