On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 8:19 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > this is the first time i've played with this feature, so i'm still > working my way through the man page, trying to figure out the various > valid combinations for shallow cloning. > > i notice that the SYNOPSIS for "man git-clone" does not contain all > of the supported options (eg., --shallow-exclude is missing, among > others). is that deliberate? No. It's either laziness or giving up on adding every option in the SYNOPSIS. Improvements are welcome. I can see now that --single-branch is mentioned in --depth (the original option to make a shallow clone) but not on the newer ones. My bad. -- Duy