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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible.
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:28:11 -0800
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Stefan Beller wrote:

> Currently it is not possible to have a shallow depth of
> just 0, i.e. only one commit in that repository after cloning.
> The minimum number of commits is 2, caused by depth=1.

Sounds buggy.  Would anything break if we were to make --depth=1 mean
"1 deep, including the tip commit"?