bootstrapping fails with git v1.4.4.4

[Steven Schubiger]

address@hidden:~/code/foreign/coreutils$ ./bootstrap
./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources...
./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
Usage: /usr/bin/git-clone [--template=<template_directory>] 
[--use-separate-remote] [--reference <reference-repo>] [--bare] [-l [-s]] [-q] 
[-u <upload-pack>] [--origin <name>] [-n] <repo> [<dir>]

I removed "dist-lzma" from configure.ac (as mentioned in README-hacking)
before bootstrapping. I suspect that within 'bootstrap' the invocation of
git-clone with the --depth parameter, i.e.

228      git clone --depth 2 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib ||

causes trouble here. I'm not sure whether I should update git or if this
feature has been deprecated and removed from the git toolsuite.

Steven Schubiger