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From: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git clone depth of 0 not possible.
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:32:05 +0100
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
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On 01/08/2013 03:28 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Speaking of --depth, I think in Git 2.0 we should fix the semantics
>> of "deepening" done with "git fetch".
> 
> Speaking of 2.0, we should support depth per ref. Well we don't have
> to wait until 2.0 because we could just add shallow2 extension to the
> pack protocol. We should also apply depth to new refs when fetching
> them the first time.
> 

Would this mean I could do something along?
$ git clone --since v1.8.0 git://github.com/gitster/git.git

So tags would be allowed as anchors?