Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth 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 <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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=<depth>:: Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by `git clone` with `--depth=<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::