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From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:24:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56969647.7020005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568F8244.2030309@gmail.com>

On 08.01.2016 10:32, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> 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.

Sorry for the missing sign-off, feel free to amend that in pu:

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth

      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 18:24 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 ` [PATCH] docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos Sebastian Schuberth
2016-01-13 18:24   ` Sebastian Schuberth [this message]

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