smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 9ac5088acd3e0cf9541ef097c26f19c5f462b770..3146413cce0d732e89d5f4e9b3fd519a347ee17d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ working tree.  After running `git add hello.c; rm hello.c`, you will _not_
 see `hello.c` in your working tree with the former, but with the latter
 you will.
 
+ * Just as the filesystem '.' (period) refers to the current directory,
+   using a '.' as a repository name in Git (a dot-repository) is a relative
+   path and means your current repository.
+
 Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are
 scripting Git:
 
@@ -106,7 +110,7 @@ couple of magic command line options:
 +
 ---------------------------------------------
 $ git describe -h
-usage: git describe [options] <committish>*
+usage: git describe [options] <commit-ish>*
    or: git describe [options] --dirty
 
     --contains            find the tag that comes after the commit