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* jc/revert-clone-doc-update-for-push-from-shallow: Revert "git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow clone"
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Documentation/git-clone.txt

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

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