There does not appear to be anything particularly incompatible about the
--shallow and --path-walk options of 'git pack-objects'. If shallow
commits are to be handled differently, then it is by the revision walk
that defines the commit set and which are interesting or uninteresting.
However, before the previous change, a trivial removal of the warning
would cause a failure in t5500-fetch-pack.sh when
GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK is enabled. The shallow fetch would provide more
objects than we desired, due to some incorrect behavior of the path-walk
API, especially around walking uninteresting objects.
The recently-added tests in t5538-push-shallow.sh help to confirm this
behavior is working with the --path-walk option if
GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK is enabled. These tests passed previously due to
the --path-walk feature being disabled in the presence of a shallow
clone.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>