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authorJonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk>2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100
committerJonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk>2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100
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Merge branch 'baserock/jonathanmaw/S9007/upgrade-git' into baserock/morphbaserock/morph
Reviewed-by: Lars Wirzenius <lars.wirzenius@codethink.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk>
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option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
--depth=<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=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
- by the specified number of commits.
+ to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
+ branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
+
+--unshallow::
+ Convert a shallow repository to a complete one, removing all
+ the limitations imposed by shallow repositories.
ifndef::git-pull[]
--dry-run::
@@ -56,14 +61,11 @@ endif::git-pull[]
ifndef::git-pull[]
-t::
--tags::
- Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
- heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at
- objects reachable from the branch heads that are being
- tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This
- flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
- downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be
- specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See
- linkgit:git-config[1].
+ This is a short-hand for giving `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`
+ refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched
+ and stored locally. Because this acts as an explicit
+ refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the
+ remote.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used.
--recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of