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From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:32:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568F8244.2030309@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n6j1cs$p4$1@ger.gmane.org>

The original wording sounded as if --depth could only be used to deepen or
shorten the history of existing repos. However, that is not the case. In a
workflow like

    $ git init
    $ git remote add origin https://github.com/git/git.git
    $ git fetch --depth=1

The newly initialized repo is properly created as a shallow repo.
---
 Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 45583d8..78cd265 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
 	option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
 
 --depth=<depth>::
-	Deepen or shorten the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
-	`git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
-	to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
-	branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
+	Limit fetching to the specified number of commits from the tip of
+	each remote branch history. If fetching to a 'shallow' repository
+	created by `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see
+	linkgit:git-clone[1]), deepen or shorten the history to the specified
+	number of commits. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
 
 --unshallow::
 	If the source repository is complete, convert a shallow
-- 
2.7.0.windows.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-08  9:33 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     ` [PATCH] docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch Sebastian Schuberth
2016-01-07 19:45       ` 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 ` Sebastian Schuberth [this message]
2016-01-13 18:24   ` [PATCH] docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos Sebastian Schuberth

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