smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 7d54b77f3c6c17466175632758e2936e64fe2a14..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: