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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-01-20 11:43:27 -0800
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Drop a few old "todo" items by deciding that the change one of them suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other one suggested to do. * ss/user-manual: user-manual: add addition gitweb information user-manual: add section documenting shallow clones glossary: define the term shallow clone user-manual: remove temporary branch entry from todo list
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"Secure Hash Algorithm 1"; a cryptographic hash function.
In the context of Git used as a synonym for <<def_object_name,object name>>.
+[[def_shallow_clone]]shallow clone::
+ Mostly a synonym to <<def_shallow_repository,shallow repository>>
+ but the phrase makes it more explicit that it was created by
+ running `git clone --depth=...` command.
+
[[def_shallow_repository]]shallow repository::
A shallow <<def_repository,repository>> has an incomplete
history some of whose <<def_commit,commits>> have <<def_parent,parents>> cauterized away (in other