Only clone with a depth when targeting HEAD or a tag.

Closes #7101.

Signed-off-by: Max Howell <max@methylblue.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index 32afea120..b457fd927 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -291,6 +291,14 @@ class GitDownloadStrategy < AbstractDownloadStrategy
   end
 
   def support_depth?
+    !commit_history_required? and depth_supported_host?
+  end
+
+  def commit_history_required?
+    @spec == :sha
+  end
+
+  def depth_supported_host?
     @url =~ %r(git://) or @url =~ %r(https://github.com/)
   end