Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.0-rc1-g556b
diff --git a/glossary.html b/glossary.html index 06658c0..ddae7d4 100644 --- a/glossary.html +++ b/glossary.html
@@ -864,6 +864,21 @@ </p> </dd> <dt> +<a id="ref_shallow_repository"></a>shallow repository +</dt> +<dd> +<p> + A <a href="#ref_shallow_repository">shallow repository</a> has an incomplete + history some of whose commits have parents cauterized away (in other + words, git is told to pretend that these commits do not have the + parents, even though they are recorded in the <a href="#ref_commit_object">commit object</a>). This is sometimes useful when you are interested only in the + recent history of a project even though the real history recorded in the + upstream is much larger. A <a href="#ref_shallow_repository">shallow repository</a> + is created by giving <tt>—depth</tt> option to <a href="git-clone.html">git-clone(1)</a>, and its + history can be later deepened with <a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a>. +</p> +</dd> +<dt> <a id="ref_symref"></a>symref </dt> <dd> @@ -984,7 +999,7 @@ </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> -Last updated 13-Jan-2007 08:09:09 UTC +Last updated 17-Jan-2007 20:25:09 UTC </div> </div> </body>
