Pushing to github after a shallow clone

Question

I had a massive git repo because of a huge number of commits, so following advice here I created a shallow clone. I\'ve made changes to this new local repo, and now I want t

Answer 1

I will not agree with the accepted answer for 2 reasons:

1. There are many reasons to fail and forget a file
2. You lose your commit messages and history

Here are my suggestions:

Graft point

You should have a $GIT_DIR/.git/shallow file with a graft point. If the history is simple enough, this graft point should allow you to push even though documentation says otherwise.

Patches

This allows you to keep commit history and etc:

git format-patch origin..master

Then clone the origin and reapply:

git clone origin_path
cp shallow_clone/*.patch deep_clone
cd deep_clone
git am *.patch

This time you can push !

git push