Merge branch 'jc/revert-clone-doc-update-for-push-from-shallow'

* jc/revert-clone-doc-update-for-push-from-shallow:
  Revert "git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow clone"

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 85769b884e..450f158779 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -182,13 +182,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 --depth <depth>::
 	Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
 	specified number of revisions.  A shallow repository has a
-	number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from it, nor
-	push into it), but is adequate if you are only interested in
-	the recent history of a large project with a long history.
-+
-Pushing from a shallow clone should be avoided if the git version on
-the receiver end is older than v1.7.10, or any other git
-implementation that does not perform connectivity check.
+	number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
+	it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you
+	are only interested in the recent history of a large project
+	with a long history, and would want to send in fixes
+	as patches.
 
 --[no-]single-branch::
 	Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,