# [PATCH 2/8] Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth 1 messages from 2012-09-16 to 2012-09-16. Participants: Philip Oakley. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31552 ## Philip Oakley, 2012-09-16 10:57 Subject: [PATCH 2/8] Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth Message-ID: <1347793083-4136-3-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1347793083-4136-3-git-send-email-philipoakley%40iee.org ``` 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 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=:: Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by `git clone` with `--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. ifndef::git-pull[] --dry-run:: -- 1.7.8.msysgit.0 ```