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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: gitList <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCHv2 2/8] Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:25:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348010734-664-3-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (raw)

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

             reply	other threads:[~2012-09-18 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-18 23:25 Philip Oakley [this message]
2012-09-19  3:45 ` [PATCHv2 2/8] Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth Junio C Hamano

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