From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:05:48 +0000 (+0700) Subject: fetch: elaborate --depth action X-Git-Tag: v1.8.2-rc0~72^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/cfb70e1fa506e79f337e716ed4813c6caa428644 fetch: elaborate --depth action --depth is explained as deepen, but the way it's applied, it can shorten the history as well. Keen users may have noticed the implication by the phrase "the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote branch". Put "shorten" in the description to make it clearer. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 7fea9a8ecd..9cb649673d 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten. --depth=:: - Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by + Deepen or shorten the history of a 'shallow' repository created by `git clone` with `--depth=` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1]) to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.