From 846f170d4dcbf9f0e81569aba7ef5d77a2f68fe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinod Kumar <24762720+vinod827@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 08:33:11 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Update website/docs/language/modules/sources.mdx Co-authored-by: trujillo-adam <47586768+trujillo-adam@users.noreply.github.com> --- website/docs/language/modules/sources.mdx | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/docs/language/modules/sources.mdx b/website/docs/language/modules/sources.mdx index bdb9b3b6a1..3156f0a446 100644 --- a/website/docs/language/modules/sources.mdx +++ b/website/docs/language/modules/sources.mdx @@ -262,11 +262,9 @@ to reduce the time taken to retrieve the remote repository. The `depth` URL argument corresponds to [the `--depth` argument to `git clone`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#Documentation/git-clone.txt---depthltdepthgt), -instructs the Git to create a shallow clone with the history truncated to only -the specified number of commits. -Because Terraform only uses the most recent selected commit to find the source -code of your specified module, it is not typically useful to set `depth` -to any value other than `1`. +which instructs Git to create a shallow clone that includes +only the specified number of commits in the history. +Setting `depth` to `1` is suitable for most cases. This is because Terraform only uses the most recently selected commit to find the source. ```hcl module "vpc" { source = "git::https://example.com/vpc.git?depth=1&ref=v1.2.0"