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git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations
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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>
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pclouds authored and gitster committed Dec 11, 2013
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--depth <depth>:: --depth <depth>::
Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a specified number of revisions.
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:: --[no-]single-branch::
Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,
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