diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/pack/PackWriter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
index 16f85166d..9d331ad9e 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/internal/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
@@ -710,11 +710,32 @@ public class PackWriter implements AutoCloseable {
 	public void preparePack(ProgressMonitor countingMonitor,
 			@NonNull Set<? extends ObjectId> want,
 			@NonNull Set<? extends ObjectId> have) throws IOException {
+		preparePack(countingMonitor,
+				want, have, Collections.<ObjectId> emptySet());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Prepare the list of objects to be written to the pack stream.
+	 * <p>
+	 * Like {@link #preparePack(ProgressMonitor, Set, Set)} but also allows
+	 * specifying commits that should not be walked past ("shallow" commits).
+	 * The caller is responsible for filtering out commits that should not
+	 * be shallow any more ("unshallow" commits as in {@link #setShallowPack})
+	 * from the shallow set.
+	 *
+	 * @since 4.5
+	 */
+	public void preparePack(ProgressMonitor countingMonitor,
+			@NonNull Set<? extends ObjectId> want,
+			@NonNull Set<? extends ObjectId> have,
+			@NonNull Set<? extends ObjectId> shallow) throws IOException {
 		ObjectWalk ow;
-		if (shallowPack)
+		if (shallowPack) {
 			ow = new DepthWalk.ObjectWalk(reader, depth - 1);
-		else
+		} else {
 			ow = new ObjectWalk(reader);
+		}
+		ow.assumeShallow(shallow);
 		preparePack(countingMonitor, ow, want, have);
 	}
 
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/UploadPack.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/UploadPack.java
index fdadb61d1..d1fd67e97 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/UploadPack.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/transport/UploadPack.java
@@ -1493,16 +1493,19 @@ public class UploadPack {
 				pw.setTagTargets(tagTargets);
 			}
 
-			if (depth > 0)
+			RevWalk rw = walk;
+			if (depth > 0) {
 				pw.setShallowPack(depth, unshallowCommits);
+				rw = new DepthWalk.RevWalk(walk.getObjectReader(), depth - 1);
+				rw.assumeShallow(clientShallowCommits);
+			}
 
-			RevWalk rw = walk;
 			if (wantAll.isEmpty()) {
-				pw.preparePack(pm, wantIds, commonBase);
+				pw.preparePack(pm, wantIds, commonBase, clientShallowCommits);
 			} else {
 				walk.reset();
 
-				ObjectWalk ow = walk.toObjectWalkWithSameObjects();
+				ObjectWalk ow = rw.toObjectWalkWithSameObjects();
 				pw.preparePack(pm, ow, wantAll, commonBase);
 				rw = ow;
 			}