From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:41:55 GMT
Subject: Re: "git clone --shallow-exclude ...", fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 8:19 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>   this is the first time i've played with this feature, so i'm still
> working my way through the man page, trying to figure out the various
> valid combinations for shallow cloning.
>
>   i notice that the SYNOPSIS for "man git-clone" does not contain all
> of the supported options (eg., --shallow-exclude is missing, among
> others). is that deliberate?

No. It's either laziness or giving up on adding every option in the
SYNOPSIS. Improvements are welcome. I can see now that --single-branch
is mentioned in --depth (the original option to make a shallow clone)
but not on the newer ones. My bad.
-- 
Duy