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| author | Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> | 2012-09-19 00:25:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-18 21:47:12 -0700 |
| commit | bc40deabbce2fec844c57bf933143babe549bce3 (patch) | |
| tree | 7687f3491d9608e2cdd491885e3ef989aaae947e | |
| parent | 304b7d99a705e8c125650dda347a571402222a3e (diff) | |
| download | git-bc40deabbce2fec844c57bf933143babe549bce3.tar.gz git-bc40deabbce2fec844c57bf933143babe549bce3.tar.xz | |
Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
Clarify that 'depth=' specifies the new depth from the remote's
branch tip. It does not add the depth to the existing shallow clone.
(details from pack-protocol.txt).
Clarify that tags are not fetched. (details from shallow.txt)
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 39d326abc..b4d6476ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ --depth=<depth>:: Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1]) - by the specified number of commits. + to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote + branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched. ifndef::git-pull[] --dry-run:: |