# Re: Shallow clone

- From: Aneesh Kumar \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 19:22:43 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7688281
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7691914/t.md

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On 11/9/06, Junio C Hamano [ref] wrote:
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" [ref] writes:
>
> >
> But it seems to need some more work.  I just tried to clone
> git.git with --depth=1 and it cauterizes each branch with two
> commits (I think that is what depth=1 means -- the latest and
> one behind it), but it pulled almost the whole repository
> anyway, and it turns out that "git log v1.4.3-rc1" gives me the
> full history leading to it.
>
> Subsequent "git fetch --depth 99999" makes the branches
> connected to the root commit, and I am reasonably sure we do not
> have that many commits, but .git/shallow did not become empty.
>

I tried a local clone with --depth 2 and it showed two commits
in all the branches/DAG. But then doing a  pull --depth 4 listed more
commits than 4. I didn't look much into this.

```