diff --git a/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl/CloneOption/help-depth.html b/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl/CloneOption/help-depth.html
index c89b8367df..a73ef2b76d 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl/CloneOption/help-depth.html
+++ b/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl/CloneOption/help-depth.html
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 <div>
   Set shallow clone depth, so that git will only download recent history of the project,
   saving time and disk space when you just want to access the latest commits of a repository.
+  Note that this has an effect on the changesets listed by Jenkins. Setting this to 1 causes
+  all files in the repository to be listed in every change.
 </div>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl/SubmoduleOption/help-depth.html b/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl/SubmoduleOption/help-depth.html
index c89b8367df..a73ef2b76d 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl/SubmoduleOption/help-depth.html
+++ b/src/main/resources/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl/SubmoduleOption/help-depth.html
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 <div>
   Set shallow clone depth, so that git will only download recent history of the project,
   saving time and disk space when you just want to access the latest commits of a repository.
+  Note that this has an effect on the changesets listed by Jenkins. Setting this to 1 causes
+  all files in the repository to be listed in every change.
 </div>