From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:52:33 GMT
Subject: Pushing/fetching from/into a shallow-cloned repository
Message-ID: <20130418135233.87aa23896fa48dc2d87d80fb@domain007.com>

The git-clone manual page, both [1] and my local copy coming with
Git for Windows 1.8.1, say about the --depth command-line option:

   --depth <depth>

     Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified
     number of revisions. A shallow repository has a number of
     limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor
     into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in the recent
     history of a large project with a long history, and would want to
     send in fixes as patches.

But having done a shallow clone (--depth=1) of one of my repositories,
I was able to record a new commit, push it out to a "reference" bare
repository and then fetch back to another clone of the same repository
just fine.  I have then killed my test commit doing a forced push from
another clone and subsequently was able to do `git fetch` in my shallow
clone just fine.

So I observe pushing/fetching works OK at least for a simple case like
this one.

Hence I'd like to ask: if the manual page is wrong or I'm observing
some corner case?