# [PATCH] git-clone.txt: Improve --depth description. 1 messages from 2007-11-01 to 2007-11-01. Participants: Ralf Wildenhues. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10554 ## Ralf Wildenhues, 2007-11-01 08:46 Subject: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: Improve --depth description. Message-ID: <20071101084602.GB4934@ins.uni-bonn.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071101084602.GB4934%40ins.uni-bonn.de ``` Avoid abbreviation 'revs', improve the language a bit. --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 253f4f0..cca14d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ OPTIONS --depth :: Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the - specified number of revs. A shallow repository has + 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 - want to only look at near the tip of a large project - with a long history, and would want to send in a fixes + are only interested in the recent history of a large project + with a long history, and would want to send in fixes as patches. :: -- 1.5.3.1.522.g85b0 ```