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About *git clone --depth=n* puzzle

From
XinLingchao <douglarek@outlook.com>
Date
Aug 14, 2013, 08:20 UTC
Message-ID
<BAY169-W472B90AB796C71E8D0D038B4450@phx.gbl>
Hi Guys,
I think I have got some trouble when I use `git clone --depth=n` command. Take a real repo for example:
`git clone https://github.com/douglarek/vimrc.git --depth=1`
then I use `git log`:
  
```  
    commit d04ca09ecc723739123fae11ad56784eb0c9b36a
    Author: Lingchao Xin <douglarek@outlook.com>
    Date:   Fri Jun 7 09:39:22 2013 +0800
        Update vnudle to master branch, add wm shortcut, pylint optimization
    commit c66d827dc212f6ae8aab6b5c44631564bcbe2acd
    Author: icocoa <lingchax@outlook.com>
    Date:   Tue Mar 12 01:36:34 2013 -0700
        Merge pull request #1 from douglarek/master
        Add markdown, flake8, pylint plugin
```
    but when I clone it with `file://`:
    git clone https://github.com/douglarek/vimrc.git
    git clone file://vimrc.git --depth=1 vimrc1
    I got this log:
```
    commit d04ca09ecc723739123fae11ad56784eb0c9b36a
Author: Lingchao Xin <douglarek@outlook.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 7 09:39:22 2013 +0800
    Update vnudle to master branch, add wm shortcut, pylint optimization
```
so the two results are not same, is it a bug? or it should be so?
My os is openSUSE 12.3 and git version 1.8.3.4; and myabe it occured in git 1.8.1.4 +.
Thanks and Best regards
Lingchao Xin 		 	   		  
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