How does"hg clone --depth" work?

Wed Nov 11 20:19:12 UTC 2020

I am using mercurial 5.5.2. Doing a "hg clone --depth 5" of a remote
repository or a local clone, the entire history is apparently copied.

I can not find details of how it works or what I should configure to get
it working.

Help!

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