From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:45:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/8] Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
Message-ID: <7vvcfaiskf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1348010734-664-3-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org>

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> 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 <philipoakley@iee.org>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> index 39d326a..b4d6476 100644
> --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
>  --depth=<depth>::
>  	Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
>  	`git clone` with `--depth=<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.

Looks good; thanks.