gitmodules: clarify what history depth a shallow clone has

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
index 8f7c50f330f36f625951db7f4cc4657a31fa7113..6f39f247a0340af2832b7a9e07cb6a0b7f6161db 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore::
 
 submodule.<name>.shallow::
        When set to true, a clone of this submodule will be performed as a
-       shallow clone unless the user explicitly asks for a non-shallow
-       clone.
+       shallow clone (with a history depth of 1) unless the user explicitly
+       asks for a non-shallow clone.
 
 
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