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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: "git clone --depth <depth>" producing history with <depth + 1>
 commits?
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 03:04:58 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote:

> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> > Is "git clone --depth 1 <ropository>" expected to give a history
> > with 2 commits?  "--depth 2" gives 3 commits, "--depth 0" all.
> > 
> > Is that by design or a bug?
> 
> Anyone?  Is "git clone --depth 1 <ropository>" really supposed to 
> produce a history holding _two_ commits?  Why so?

Because storing _no_ commit (according to you, that should happen with 
--depth=0) would make no sense?

After all, if you want to clone, you want to clone at least _something_.

Ciao,
Dscho