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diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index f1f2a3f7ea..789b668f77 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -104,8 +104,13 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --dissociate:: Borrow the objects from reference repositories specified with the `--reference` options only to reduce network - transfer and stop borrowing from them after a clone is made - by making necessary local copies of borrowed objects. + transfer, and stop borrowing from them after a clone is made + by making necessary local copies of borrowed objects. This + option can also be used when cloning locally from a + repository that already borrows objects from another + repository--the new repository will borrow objects from the + same repository, and this option can be used to stop the + borrowing. --quiet:: -q:: @@ -185,15 +190,14 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --depth <depth>:: Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the - specified number of revisions. + specified number of commits. Implies `--single-branch` unless + `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the + tips of all branches. --[no-]single-branch:: Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, either specified by the `--branch` option or the primary - branch remote's `HEAD` points at. When creating a shallow - clone with the `--depth` option, this is the default, unless - `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the - tips of all branches. + branch remote's `HEAD` points at. Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any |