From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 14:06:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <568D1167.30700@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568D10D6.7020707@gmail.com>
It is confusing to document how --depth behaves as part of the
--single-branch docs. Better move that part to the --depth docs, saying
that it implies --single-branch by default.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-clone.txt | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 6bf000d..943de8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -190,15 +190,14 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
--depth <depth>::
Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
- specified number of revisions.
+ specified number of revisions. Implies `--single-branch` unless
+ `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the
+ tips of all branches.
--[no-]single-branch::
Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,
either specified by the `--branch` option or the primary
- branch remote's `HEAD` points at. When creating a shallow
- clone with the `--depth` option, this is the default, unless
- `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the
- tips of all branches.
+ branch remote's `HEAD` points at.
Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the
remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the
initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any
--
2.7.0.windows.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-06 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-06 12:30 Questions on passing --depth to git-clone vs. git-fetch Sebastian Schuberth
2016-01-06 12:41 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-01-06 13:04 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2016-01-06 13:06 ` Sebastian Schuberth [this message]
2016-01-07 19:45 ` [PATCH] docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch Junio C Hamano
2016-01-08 9:18 ` [PATCH] docs: say "commits" in the --depth option wording for git-clone Sebastian Schuberth
2016-01-13 18:22 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2016-01-08 9:32 ` [PATCH] docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos Sebastian Schuberth
2016-01-13 18:24 ` Sebastian Schuberth
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