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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/shallow.txt | 3 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 6e98bdf149..9cb649673d 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -8,11 +8,15 @@ option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten. --depth=<depth>:: - Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by + Deepen or shorten the history of a 'shallow' repository created by `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1]) to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched. +--unshallow:: + Convert a shallow repository to a complete one, removing all + the limitations imposed by shallow repositories. + ifndef::git-pull[] --dry-run:: Show what would be done, without making any changes. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index 8c751202d7..b81e90d8e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. --depth=<n>:: Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n. + 'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as + infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long. --no-progress:: Do not show the progress. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt index 0502a5471e..ea2f69faf5 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt @@ -53,3 +53,6 @@ It also writes an appropriate $GIT_DIR/shallow. You can deepen a shallow repository with "git-fetch --depth 20 repo branch", which will fetch branch from repo, but stop at depth 20, updating $GIT_DIR/shallow. + +The special depth 2147483647 (or 0x7fffffff, the largest positive +number a signed 32-bit integer can contain) means infinite depth. |