git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations
authorNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:02:55 +0000 (20:02 +0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:14:19 +0000 (16:14 -0800)
Now that git supports data transfer from or to a shallow clone, these
limitations are not true anymore.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 450f158779fbfda31c0b3f85d4768a294ef782ef..49878570bfabd3871d2c2c04cadcac52c66a448d 100644 (file)
@@ -181,12 +181,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 
 --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 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.
+       specified number of revisions.
 
 --[no-]single-branch::
        Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,