From 071f14a0bb25ffa8e5aaf8ad37031d205f49ef7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:17:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't do shallow fetches over ssh

---
 src/libfetchers/git-utils.cc | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libfetchers/git-utils.cc b/src/libfetchers/git-utils.cc
index f554dcc5f..19eae0e1d 100644
--- a/src/libfetchers/git-utils.cc
+++ b/src/libfetchers/git-utils.cc
@@ -381,7 +381,9 @@ struct GitRepoImpl : GitRepo, std::enable_shared_from_this<GitRepoImpl>
         };
 
         git_fetch_options opts = GIT_FETCH_OPTIONS_INIT;
-        opts.depth = shallow ? 1 : GIT_FETCH_DEPTH_FULL;
+        // FIXME: for some reason, shallow fetching over ssh barfs
+        // with "could not read from remote repository".
+        opts.depth = shallow && parseURL(url).scheme != "ssh" ? 1 : GIT_FETCH_DEPTH_FULL;
         opts.callbacks.payload = &act;
         opts.callbacks.sideband_progress = sidebandProgressCallback;
         opts.callbacks.transfer_progress = transferProgressCallback;