bug#33100: [libssh] fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Ludovic,

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> Perhaps just clearer messages would have helped here also ('Failed to do
>> a shallow git clone due to ~error message~, falling back to a full clone').
>
> I agree, and that’s something to suggest to the Git folks.  :-)

Upon further inspection, we can do better on our side, specifically by
printing a message of the fallback occurring when calling git-fetch. The
patch below implements this simple change.

What do you think?

0001-build-git-fetch-Print-message-when-falling-back-to-a.patch
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Maxim