From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: gitList <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCHv2 3/8] Doc: Improve shallow depth wording
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:25:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348010734-664-4-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (raw)
Avoid confusion in compound sentence about the start of the commit set
and the depth measure. Use two sentences.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index 49cdc57..d51e20f 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -259,8 +259,10 @@ a positive depth, this step is skipped.
----
If the client has requested a positive depth, the server will compute
-the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth, starting
-at the client's wants. The server writes 'shallow' lines for each
+the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. The set
+of commits start at the client's wants.
+
+The server writes 'shallow' lines for each
commit whose parents will not be sent as a result. The server writes
an 'unshallow' line for each commit which the client has indicated is
shallow, but is no longer shallow at the currently requested depth
--
1.7.8.msysgit.0
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