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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-02-05 14:54:18 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-02-05 14:54:19 -0800 |
commit | 353f68557253c2e16fb1a790881cb915f31a0ccd (patch) | |
tree | 099028511931a18638a446121c014feb46a219a0 /Documentation/glossary-content.txt | |
parent | Merge branch 'jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim' into maint (diff) | |
parent | user-manual: add addition gitweb information (diff) | |
download | tgif-353f68557253c2e16fb1a790881cb915f31a0ccd.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'ss/user-manual' into maint
Drop a few old "todo" items by deciding that the change one of them
suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other
one suggested to do.
* ss/user-manual:
user-manual: add addition gitweb information
user-manual: add section documenting shallow clones
glossary: define the term shallow clone
user-manual: remove temporary branch entry from todo list
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diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index e225974253..cafc284359 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -531,6 +531,11 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`. "Secure Hash Algorithm 1"; a cryptographic hash function. In the context of Git used as a synonym for <<def_object_name,object name>>. +[[def_shallow_clone]]shallow clone:: + Mostly a synonym to <<def_shallow_repository,shallow repository>> + but the phrase makes it more explicit that it was created by + running `git clone --depth=...` command. + [[def_shallow_repository]]shallow repository:: A shallow <<def_repository,repository>> has an incomplete history some of whose <<def_commit,commits>> have <<def_parent,parents>> cauterized away (in other |