* [PATCH 2/8] Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
@ 2012-09-16 10:57 Philip Oakley
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From: Philip Oakley @ 2012-09-16 10:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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>
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 39d326a..b4d6476 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::
--
1.7.8.msysgit.0
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