mercurial/hg.py

--- a/mercurial/hg.py	Wed Sep 26 14:41:15 2018 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/hg.py	Fri Oct 19 14:59:03 2018 +0200
@@ -578,6 +578,9 @@
 
         createopts['narrowfiles'] = True
 
+    if depth:
+        createopts['shallowfilestore'] = True
+
     if srcpeer.capable(b'lfs-serve'):
         # Repository creation honors the config if it disabled the extension, so
         # we can't just announce that lfs will be enabled.  This check avoids