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authorLibravatar Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>2012-09-19 00:25:28 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-18 21:47:12 -0700
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parentGit 1.7.12.1 (diff)
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Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
Clarify that 'depth=' specifies the new depth from the remote's branch tip. It does not add the depth to the existing shallow clone. (details from pack-protocol.txt). Clarify that tags are not fetched. (details from shallow.txt) Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
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@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
--depth=<depth>::
Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
`git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
- by the specified number of commits.
+ to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
+ branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
ifndef::git-pull[]
--dry-run::