The git plugin has the capability to perform a "shallow clone" under Advanced clone behaviours, but in some specific instances, being able to clone to a greater depth than one can prove helpful but without having to get an entire repo (ours is getting rather large).

In our case we poll every five minutes and since we have a good sized development team we find that occasionally multiple commits get pushed during the window and then Jenkins reference hash won't show up in the shallow clone log output so we don't get a changelog generated and the committer doesn't get a result email either.

If you could add the ability to specify a depth value for cloning that would be very helpful!