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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt index 559263af48..0502a5471e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ -Def.: Shallow commits do have parents, but not in the shallow +Shallow commits +=============== + +.Definition +********************************************************* +Shallow commits do have parents, but not in the shallow repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that these commits have no parents. +********************************************************* The basic idea is to write the SHA1s of shallow commits into $GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents like the contents |