[clang] clang.llvm.org/get_started.html: remove shallow clone misinformation (PR #142213)
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Author: наб (nabijaczleweli)
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<summary>Changes</summary>
You can absolutely push from a shallow clone, this is just false
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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/142213.diff
1 Files Affected:
- (modified) clang/www/get_started.html (+1-1)
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diff --git a/clang/www/get_started.html b/clang/www/get_started.html
index 0087aba168839..175ba463606fa 100755
--- a/clang/www/get_started.html
+++ b/clang/www/get_started.html
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ <h3 id="buildNix">On Unix-like Systems</h3>
<li>The above command is very slow. It can be made faster by creating a shallow clone. Shallow clone saves storage and speeds up the checkout time. This is done by using the command:
<ul>
<li><tt>git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git (using this only the latest version of llvm can be built)</tt></li>
- <li>For normal users looking to just compile, this command works fine. But if someone later becomes a contributor, since they can't push code from a shallow clone, it needs to be converted into a full clone:
+ <li>For normal users looking to just compile, this command works fine. But if someone later becomes a contributor, since this hides all history, they may want to convert this into a full clone:
<ul>
<li><tt>cd llvm-project</tt></li>
<li><tt>git fetch --unshallow</tt></li>
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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/142213
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