# what *precisely* means "--depth" WRT a shallow clone?

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Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/52067

## Robert P. J. Day, 2019-10-18 09:48

Subject: what *precisely* means "--depth" WRT a shallow clone?
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  i can see the standard use of "--depth" when set to precisely one,
for CI/CD systems that don't need any history. but what does it mean
to say, eg, "--depth 10"?

  the man page explains that as "a history truncated to the specified
number of commits", but what does mean in the sense of branching and
merging? will i get *precisely* 10 commits of history? and in the
context of merging, *which* 10 commits?

  sorry if this should be obvious.

rday

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