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[PATCH 3/8] Doc: Improve shallow depth wording

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Sep 16, 2012, 10:57 UTC
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Avoid confusion in compound sentence about the start of the commit set and the depth measure. Use two sentences.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index 49cdc57..fa4acab 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -258,9 +258,11 @@ a positive depth, this step is skipped.
   unshallow-line   =  PKT-LINE("unshallow" SP obj-id)
 ----
 
-If the client has requested a positive depth, the server will compute
-the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth, starting
-at the client's wants. The server writes 'shallow' lines for each
+If the client has requested a positive depth the server will compute
+the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. The set
+of commits start at the client's wants.
+
+The server writes 'shallow' lines for each
 commit whose parents will not be sent as a result. The server writes
 an 'unshallow' line for each commit which the client has indicated is
 shallow, but is no longer shallow at the currently requested depth
-- 
1.7.8.msysgit.0
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