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[PATCH] clone,fetch: explain the shallow-clone option a little more clearly

From
Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2016, 22:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20161204220359.30807-1-alexhenrie24@gmail.com>

"deepen by excluding" does not make sense because excluding a revision does not deepen a repository; it makes the repository more shallow.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/clone.c | 2 +-
 builtin/fetch.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
index 6c76a6e..e3cb808 100644
--- a/builtin/clone.c
+++ b/builtin/clone.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static struct option builtin_clone_options[] = {
 	OPT_STRING(0, "shallow-since", &option_since, N_("time"),
 		    N_("create a shallow clone since a specific time")),
 	OPT_STRING_LIST(0, "shallow-exclude", &option_not, N_("revision"),
-			N_("deepen history of shallow clone by excluding rev")),
+			N_("deepen history of shallow clone, excluding rev")),
 	OPT_BOOL(0, "single-branch", &option_single_branch,
 		    N_("clone only one branch, HEAD or --branch")),
 	OPT_BOOL(0, "shallow-submodules", &option_shallow_submodules,
diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c
index b6a5597..fc74c84 100644
--- a/builtin/fetch.c
+++ b/builtin/fetch.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static struct option builtin_fetch_options[] = {
 	OPT_STRING(0, "shallow-since", &deepen_since, N_("time"),
 		   N_("deepen history of shallow repository based on time")),
 	OPT_STRING_LIST(0, "shallow-exclude", &deepen_not, N_("revision"),
-			N_("deepen history of shallow clone by excluding rev")),
+			N_("deepen history of shallow clone, excluding rev")),
 	OPT_INTEGER(0, "deepen", &deepen_relative,
 		    N_("deepen history of shallow clone")),
 	{ OPTION_SET_INT, 0, "unshallow", &unshallow, NULL,
-- 
2.10.2
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