From: Philip Oakley Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:25:28 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth X-Git-Tag: v1.8.0-rc0~26^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bc40deabbce2fec844c57bf933143babe549bce3;p=git.git 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 39d326abc..b4d6476ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ --depth=:: Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by `git clone` with `--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::