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
next prev 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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