On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 04:31:10PM +0900, Sanggyu Nam wrote: > I’ve found that some subcommands such as git-clone, git-fetch, and > git-pull support an option named ‘--shallow-since’, as of Git version > 2.11. This option is documented in the man page of each subcommand. In > Git 2.14.1, I’ve checked that the option is available for git-clone > and git-fetch so that the history of a shallow repository is updated. > However, running git-pull with this option shows an error as follows: > > error: unknown option `shallow-since=2017-09-10T00:00:00+00:00' > > usage: git pull [<options>] [<repository> [<refspec>...]] > ... > > I found that this option is not available in Git 2.14.1 on macOS and > Ubuntu 16.04.1. It seems the option handling of git-pull does not > match with what’s described in the man page. Since ‘git pull’ is a > shorthand for ‘git fetch’ followed by ‘git merge FETCH_HEAD’ in its > default mode, we can run these two commands in this order as a > workaround. > > This does not only count for --shallow-since, but also --deepen and --shallow-exclude.
