Hi, I'd like to confirm: when doing shallow clone with --depth=n, and then using blame, git does know only about n last revisions. For each change that happened before shows "^commit" where "commit" is n+1 commit ? I wonder if this can be more clear. I was bitten by this today. I was using blame on a file and it showed a commit and author for a line. But the line was not changed in that commit. Took me a while to understand that it's caused by shallow copy... I could be blamed for not reading git-blame man, but luckily ^commit is not described there ;) Also, git-log puts all not cloned commits into last not cloned commit, and there's no information that it's a "fake" commit. Example: /tmp$ mkdir r && cd r && git init && echo a > a && git add a && git commit -a -m first && echo b > b && git add b && git commit -a -m second && echo aa >> a && git commit -a -m third && echo bb >> b && git commit -a -m fourth && cd .. warning: templates not found /home/piotr/share/git-core/templates Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/r/.git/ [master (root-commit) 890ec47] first 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 a [master f969fda] second 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 b [master 20c3c2c] third 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [master 9dcd745] fourth 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) /tmp$ DIR=clone1; git clone --depth 1 file:///tmp/r $DIR && cd $DIR && git log --stat --oneline Cloning into clone1... warning: templates not found /home/piotr/share/git-core/templates remote: Counting objects: 7, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Receiving objects: 100% (7/7), 515 bytes, done. remote: Total 7 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) 9dcd745 fourth b | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) 20c3c2c third a | 2 ++ b | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) /tmp/clone1$ git blame a ^20c3c2c (Piotr Krukowiecki 2011-03-02 20:42:53 +0100 1) a ^20c3c2c (Piotr Krukowiecki 2011-03-02 20:42:53 +0100 2) aa /tmp/clone1$ git blame b ^20c3c2c (Piotr Krukowiecki 2011-03-02 20:42:53 +0100 1) b 9dcd7453 (Piotr Krukowiecki 2011-03-02 20:42:53 +0100 2) bb -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html