--depth <depth>::
Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a
- number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor
- push into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in
- the recent history of a large project with a long history.
-+
-Pushing from a shallow clone should be avoided if the git version on
-the receiver end is older than v1.7.10, or any other git
-implementation that does not perform connectivity check.
+ number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
+ it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you
+ are only interested in the recent history of a large project
+ with a long history, and would want to send in fixes
+ as patches.
--[no-]single-branch::
Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,