Documentation advertises the new `--depth <n>' parameter with an equal
sign, while the usage notes (shown after `git-clone --help') do not. If I
understood git-clone's source code correctly, the version without the
equal sign is correct, which is why this patch syncs documentation to the
usage note.
Signed-off-by: Christian Schlotter <schlotter@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- There is a partial support for 'shallow' repositories that
keeps only recent history. A 'shallow clone' is created by
specifying how deep that truncated history should be
- (e.g. "git clone --depth=5 git://some.where/repo.git").
+ (e.g. "git clone --depth 5 git://some.where/repo.git").
Currently a shallow repository has number of limitations:
[verse]
'git-clone' [--template=<template_directory>] [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [--bare]
[-o <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
- [--depth=<depth>] <repository> [<directory>]
+ [--depth <depth>] <repository> [<directory>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
if unset the templates are taken from the installation
defined default, typically `/usr/share/git-core/templates`.
---depth=<depth>::
+--depth <depth>::
Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
specified number of revs. A shallow repository has
number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from