Shallow clone [Was Re: What's in git.git ]

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>]

David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> [pu]
>>
>>  Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top
>>  of 'master' although I haven't done so yet.  As he said
>>  himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for
>>  such a feature to raise hands.
> 
> I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I understand 
> it to be (the ability to get a partial repository from upstream and work 
> normally from there with the result of data-mineing tools sometimes 
> reporting 'that's part of the truncated history' if they hit the cutoff) 
> consider my hand raised.
> 
> there are a number of cases where I would be interested in following a 
> project as it moves forwards, but do not have the need to have the full 
> history (even with the good compression that a git pack provides, it's 
> still a significant amount of disk space and download time for large 
> projects)
> 

I am trying to test this feature. Is there a documentation .git/shallow some where. Atleast what those entries
mean ? I know in the mail johannes mentioned only core git will touch this file. But it should be ok to be 
descriptive like other files. (FETCH_HEAD)

-aneesh