diff --git a/recipes/README.recipes.md b/recipes/README.recipes.md
index c76178105..6a54917cd 100644
--- a/recipes/README.recipes.md
+++ b/recipes/README.recipes.md
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ Returns:
 
 Returns a git command step.
 
-— **def [bundle\_create](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#373)(self, bundle_path, rev_list_args=None, \*\*kwargs):**
+— **def [bundle\_create](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#391)(self, bundle_path, rev_list_args=None, \*\*kwargs):**
 
 Runs 'git bundle create' on a Git repository.
 
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ Args:
 
 Outputs the contents of a file at a given revision.
 
-— **def [checkout](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#107)(self, url, ref=None, dir_path=None, recursive=False, submodules=True, submodule_update_force=False, keep_paths=None, step_suffix=None, curl_trace_file=None, raise_on_failure=True, set_got_revision=False, remote_name=None, display_fetch_size=None, file_name=None, submodule_update_recursive=True, use_git_cache=False, progress=True, tags=False):**
+— **def [checkout](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#107)(self, url, ref=None, dir_path=None, recursive=False, submodules=True, submodule_update_force=False, keep_paths=None, step_suffix=None, curl_trace_file=None, raise_on_failure=True, set_got_revision=False, remote_name=None, display_fetch_size=None, file_name=None, submodule_update_recursive=True, use_git_cache=False, progress=True, tags=False, depth=None):**
 
 Performs a full git checkout and returns sha1 of checked out revision.
 
@@ -461,11 +461,13 @@ Args:
        * arbitrary refs such refs/whatever/not-fetched-by-default-to-cache
    progress (bool): whether to show progress for fetch or not
   * tags (bool): Also fetch tags.
+  * depth (int): if > 0, limit fetching to the given number of commits from
+    the tips of the remote tree.
 
 Returns: If the checkout was successful, this returns the commit hash of
   the checked-out-repo. Otherwise this returns None.
 
-— **def [config\_get](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#342)(self, prop_name, \*\*kwargs):**
+— **def [config\_get](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#360)(self, prop_name, \*\*kwargs):**
 
 Returns git config output.
 
@@ -492,7 +494,7 @@ Returns:
 
 Fetches all tags from the remote.
 
-— **def [get\_remote\_url](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#361)(self, remote_name=None, \*\*kwargs):**
+— **def [get\_remote\_url](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#379)(self, remote_name=None, \*\*kwargs):**
 
 Returns the remote Git repository URL, or None.
 
@@ -502,11 +504,11 @@ Args:
 
 Returns: (str) The URL of the remote Git repository, or None.
 
-— **def [get\_timestamp](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#313)(self, commit='HEAD', test_data=None, \*\*kwargs):**
+— **def [get\_timestamp](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#331)(self, commit='HEAD', test_data=None, \*\*kwargs):**
 
 Find and return the timestamp of the given commit.
 
-— **def [new\_branch](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#386)(self, branch, name=None, upstream=None, upstream_current=False, \*\*kwargs):**
+— **def [new\_branch](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#404)(self, branch, name=None, upstream=None, upstream_current=False, \*\*kwargs):**
 
 Runs git new-branch on a Git repository, to be used before git cl
 upload.
@@ -518,7 +520,7 @@ Args:
   * upstream_current (bool): whether to use '--upstream_current'.
   * kwargs: Forwarded to '__call__'.
 
-— **def [number](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#417)(self, commitrefs=None, test_values=None):**
+— **def [number](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#435)(self, commitrefs=None, test_values=None):**
 
 Computes the generation number of some commits.
 
@@ -535,7 +537,7 @@ A list of strings containing the generation numbers of the commits.
 If non-empty commitrefs was provided, the order of the returned
 numbers will correspond to the order of the provided commitrefs.
 
-— **def [rebase](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#322)(self, name_prefix, branch, dir_path, remote_name=None, \*\*kwargs):**
+— **def [rebase](/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py#340)(self, name_prefix, branch, dir_path, remote_name=None, \*\*kwargs):**
 
 Runs rebase HEAD onto branch
 
diff --git a/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py b/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py
index fc3bf92d8..a4c04416f 100644
--- a/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py
+++ b/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py
@@ -104,14 +104,26 @@ class GitApi(recipe_api.RecipeApi):
         raise recipe_api.InfraFailure('count-objects failed: %s' % ex)
       return None
 
-  def checkout(self, url, ref=None, dir_path=None, recursive=False,
-               submodules=True, submodule_update_force=False,
-               keep_paths=None, step_suffix=None,
-               curl_trace_file=None, raise_on_failure=True,
-               set_got_revision=False, remote_name=None,
-               display_fetch_size=None, file_name=None,
+  def checkout(self,
+               url,
+               ref=None,
+               dir_path=None,
+               recursive=False,
+               submodules=True,
+               submodule_update_force=False,
+               keep_paths=None,
+               step_suffix=None,
+               curl_trace_file=None,
+               raise_on_failure=True,
+               set_got_revision=False,
+               remote_name=None,
+               display_fetch_size=None,
+               file_name=None,
                submodule_update_recursive=True,
-               use_git_cache=False, progress=True, tags=False):
+               use_git_cache=False,
+               progress=True,
+               tags=False,
+               depth=None):
     """Performs a full git checkout and returns sha1 of checked out revision.
 
     Args:
@@ -145,6 +157,8 @@ class GitApi(recipe_api.RecipeApi):
            * arbitrary refs such refs/whatever/not-fetched-by-default-to-cache
        progress (bool): whether to show progress for fetch or not
       * tags (bool): Also fetch tags.
+      * depth (int): if > 0, limit fetching to the given number of commits from
+        the tips of the remote tree.
 
     Returns: If the checkout was successful, this returns the commit hash of
       the checked-out-repo. Otherwise this returns None.
@@ -246,6 +260,10 @@ class GitApi(recipe_api.RecipeApi):
       if tags:
         fetch_args.append('--tags')
 
+      if depth:
+        assert isinstance(depth, int)
+        fetch_args.append('--depth %d' % depth)
+
       fetch_step_name = 'git fetch%s' % step_suffix
       if display_fetch_size:
         count_objects_before_fetch = self.count_objects(
diff --git a/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.expected/git-checkout-with-depth.json b/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.expected/git-checkout-with-depth.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..425a23c43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.expected/git-checkout-with-depth.json
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+[
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "python3",
+      "-u",
+      "RECIPE_MODULE[depot_tools::git]/resources/git_setup.py",
+      "--path",
+      "[START_DIR]/src",
+      "--url",
+      "https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git"
+    ],
+    "name": "git setup"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "fetch",
+      "origin",
+      "main",
+      "--recurse-submodules",
+      "--progress",
+      "--depth 1"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "env": {
+      "PATH": "RECIPE_REPO[depot_tools]:<PATH>"
+    },
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git fetch"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "checkout",
+      "-f",
+      "FETCH_HEAD"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git checkout"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "rev-parse",
+      "HEAD"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "read revision",
+    "~followup_annotations": [
+      "@@@STEP_TEXT@<br/>checked out 'deadbeef'<br/>@@@"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "clean",
+      "-f",
+      "-d",
+      "-x"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git clean"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "submodule",
+      "sync"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "submodule sync"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "submodule",
+      "update",
+      "--init",
+      "--recursive"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "submodule update"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "-c",
+      "foo=bar",
+      "count-objects",
+      "-v"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "count-objects"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "config",
+      "--get",
+      "remote.origin.url"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git config remote.origin.url",
+    "~followup_annotations": [
+      "@@@STEP_TEXT@foo@@@"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "show",
+      "HEAD",
+      "--format=%at",
+      "-s"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git show"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "fetch",
+      "origin",
+      "--tags"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git fetch tags"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "status"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git status"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "status"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git status can_fail_build"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "status"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git status cannot_fail_build"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "new-branch",
+      "refactor"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "env": {
+      "PATH": "RECIPE_REPO[depot_tools]:<PATH>"
+    },
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git new-branch refactor"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "new-branch",
+      "feature",
+      "--upstream",
+      "refactor"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "env": {
+      "PATH": "RECIPE_REPO[depot_tools]:<PATH>"
+    },
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git new-branch feature"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "new-branch",
+      "track_current",
+      "--upstream_current"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "env": {
+      "PATH": "RECIPE_REPO[depot_tools]:<PATH>"
+    },
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git new-branch track_current"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "rebase",
+      "origin/main"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "my repo rebase"
+  },
+  {
+    "cmd": [
+      "git",
+      "bundle",
+      "create",
+      "[START_DIR]/all.bundle",
+      "--all"
+    ],
+    "cwd": "[START_DIR]/src",
+    "infra_step": true,
+    "name": "git bundle"
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "$result"
+  }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.expected/new_branch_failed.json b/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.expected/new_branch_failed.json
index 5084d693b..a0e6363f0 100644
--- a/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.expected/new_branch_failed.json
+++ b/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.expected/new_branch_failed.json
@@ -194,10 +194,10 @@
       "  File \"RECIPE_REPO[recipe_engine]/recipe_engine/internal/property_invoker.py\", in _invoke_with_properties",
       "    return callable_obj(*props, **additional_args)",
       "           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^",
-      "  File \"RECIPE_REPO[depot_tools]/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.py\", line 81, in RunSteps",
+      "  File \"RECIPE_REPO[depot_tools]/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.py\", line 82, in RunSteps",
       "    api.git.new_branch('failed_new_branch', upstream='will_fail', upstream_current=True) #pylint: disable = line-too-long",
       "    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^",
-      "  File \"RECIPE_REPO[depot_tools]/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py\", line 403, in new_branch",
+      "  File \"RECIPE_REPO[depot_tools]/recipes/recipe_modules/git/api.py\", line 421, in new_branch",
       "    raise ValueError('Can not define both upstream and upstream_current')",
       "ValueError: Can not define both upstream and upstream_current"
     ]
diff --git a/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.py b/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.py
index ca2618a8a..b772e7647 100644
--- a/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.py
+++ b/recipes/recipe_modules/git/examples/full.py
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ def RunSteps(api):
       file_name=api.properties.get('checkout_file_name'),
       submodule_update_recursive=submodule_update_recursive,
       use_git_cache=api.properties.get('use_git_cache'),
-      tags=api.properties.get('tags'))
+      tags=api.properties.get('tags'),
+      depth=api.properties.get('depth'))
 
   assert retVal == "deadbeef", (
     "expected retVal to be %r but was %r" % ("deadbeef", retVal))
@@ -172,3 +173,5 @@ def GenTests(api):
   yield (api.test('new_branch_failed', status="INFRA_FAILURE") +
          api.properties(set_both_upstream_and_upstream_current=True) +
          api.expect_exception('ValueError'))
+
+  yield (api.test('git-checkout-with-depth') + api.properties(depth=1))