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diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt index bc917bbac..d20eb6270 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt @@ -286,6 +286,18 @@ SCM:: SHA1:: Synonym for object name. +shallow repository:: + A shallow repository has an incomplete history some of + whose commits have parents cauterized away (in other + words, git is told to pretend that these commits do not + have the parents, even though they are recorded in the + commit object). This is sometimes useful when you are + interested only in the recent history of a project even + though the real history recorded in the upstream is + much larger. A shallow repository is created by giving + `--depth` option to gitlink:git-clone[1], and its + history can be later deepened with gitlink:git-fetch[1]. + symref:: Symbolic reference: instead of containing the SHA1 id itself, it is of the format 'ref: refs/some/thing' and when referenced, it |