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technical/shallow: stop referring to grafts

Now that grafts are deprecated, we should start to assume that readers
have no idea what grafts are. So it makes more sense to make the
description of the "shallow" feature stand on its own.

Suggested-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johannes Schindelin 7 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -8,15 +8,10 @@ repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that @@ -8,15 +8,10 @@ repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that
these commits have no parents.
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The basic idea is to write the SHA-1s of shallow commits into
$GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents like the contents
of $GIT_DIR/info/grafts (with the difference that shallow
cannot contain parent information).

This information is stored in a new file instead of grafts, or
even the config, since the user should not touch that file
at all (even throughout development of the shallow clone, it
was never manually edited!).
$GIT_DIR/shallow lists commit object names and tells Git to
pretend as if they are root commits (e.g. "git log" traversal
stops after showing them; "git fsck" does not complain saying
the commits listed on their "parent" lines do not exist).

Each line contains exactly one SHA-1. When read, a commit_graft
will be constructed, which has nr_parent < 0 to make it easier

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