Re: Pushing/fetching from/into a shallow-cloned repository

> 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?
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