X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-clone.txt;h=cca14d6b5df042fcf48889e5ff00285ffc4c3009;hb=bfc07db5756bf7fe227b28daf8e19987819be514;hp=227f092e268497aad9c16cff4d796dabf60401de;hpb=941fd1c041204f30279c175ca9b7252ffcb52ba2;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 227f092e2..cca14d6b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ OPTIONS automatically setup .git/objects/info/alternates to obtain objects from the reference repository. Using an already existing repository as an alternate will - require less objects to be copied from the repository + require fewer objects to be copied from the repository being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs. --quiet:: @@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ OPTIONS --depth :: Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the - specified number of revs. A shallow repository has + specified number of revisions. A shallow repository has a number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you - want to only look at near the tip of a large project - with a long history, and would want to send in a fixes + are only interested in the recent history of a large project + with a long history, and would want to send in fixes as patches. ::