Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos

From: Sebastian Schuberth <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:24:07 +0100

On 08.01.2016 10:32, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> The original wording sounded as if --depth could only be used to deepen or
> shorten the history of existing repos. However, that is not the case. In a
> workflow like
>
>      $ git init
>      $ git remote add origin https://github.com/git/git.git
>      $ git fetch --depth=1
>
> The newly initialized repo is properly created as a shallow repo.

Sorry for the missing sign-off, feel free to amend that in pu:

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <[email-masked]>

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Sebastian Schuberth