diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-for-experimental.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-for-experimental.nix
index fadbd7d98b9c..237a56aaa75c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-for-experimental.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-for-experimental.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,4 @@ rec {
    hash="b5dfae5245b1b3934ca918831fbe9fa0bb7ae790c682b69f5ecc042cccf58894";
    rev="1461ac760f79b8f153c8317c4534cb047a48331a";
    url="git://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl.git";
-  
-   depth="50";
-  
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-info-for-experimental.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-info-for-experimental.nix
index f2004980d599..60750f7b90be 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-info-for-experimental.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/uzbl/src-info-for-experimental.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,4 @@
   baseName = "uzbl-experimental";
   method = "fetchgit";
   rev = "origin/experimental";
-  extraVars = "depth";
-  eval_depth = "depth=50";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/builder-defs/builder-defs.nix b/pkgs/build-support/builder-defs/builder-defs.nix
index fe4b16374a3d..814ce460794c 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/builder-defs/builder-defs.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/builder-defs/builder-defs.nix
@@ -546,11 +546,11 @@ let inherit (builtins) head tail trace; in
      sha256 = srcInfo.hash;
    };
 
-   fetchGitFromSrcInfo = srcInfo: fetchgit ({
+   fetchGitFromSrcInfo = srcInfo: fetchgit {
      url = srcInfo.url;
      rev = srcInfo.rev;
      sha256 = srcInfo.hash;
-   } // (if srcInfo ? depth then {inherit (srcInfo) depth;} else {}));
+   };
 }) // args
 
 # [1]: rewrite using '' instead of " so that indentation gets stripped. It's
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/builder.sh b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/builder.sh
index 83a3157b498f..08a1cc5d3419 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/builder.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ source $stdenv/setup
 
 header "exporting $url (rev $rev) into $out"
 
-git clone --depth "$depth" "$url" $out
+git clone "$url" $out
 if test -n "$rev"; then
   cd $out
   git checkout $rev
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix
index b8517245d28b..270125f5bd74 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {stdenv, git}:
-{url, rev ? "HEAD", md5 ? "", sha256 ? "", depth ? 1}:
+{url, rev ? "HEAD", md5 ? "", sha256 ? ""}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "git-export";
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-for-2.6.31-zen5.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-for-2.6.31-zen5.nix
index 2d06b7298076..fed3b4555add 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-for-2.6.31-zen5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-for-2.6.31-zen5.nix
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ rec {
    hash="86e254d1aab17a66d7f5a83d93430b11dbeb95be1ee06f1d6a4c36219e4dfaf4";
    rev="cd9caea74b8f90e8dded45a93a173f0f5c5aef25";
    url="git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/zen-stable.git";
-   depth = "500";
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-for-zen-stable.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-for-zen-stable.nix
index 9db52a590496..a3d781375533 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-for-zen-stable.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-for-zen-stable.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,4 @@ rec {
    hash="f5c86214424c8a7202c2dd9bbbd800561940af00800edb8afab080a73c185bca";
    rev="66a44aa93959818bdb8153fea27b0992197ebc54";
    url="git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/zen-stable.git";
-   depth = "500";
-  
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-info-for-zen-stable.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-info-for-zen-stable.nix
index f19e47e35054..e71297b146db 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-info-for-zen-stable.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/src-info-for-zen-stable.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,4 @@
   rev = "origin/master";
   baseName = "zen-linux";
   method = "fetchgit";
-  extraVars = "depth";
-  eval_depth = "depth=500";
 }