[PATCH] Remove warning that repack only works on non-promisor packfiles
From: Tao Klerks via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-02 11:47:31
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Tao Klerks <redacted>
The git-repack doc clearly states that it *does* operate on promisor
packfiles (in a separate partition), with "-a" specified. Presumably
the statements here are outdated, as they feature from the first doc
in 2017 (and the repack support was added in 2018)
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <redacted>
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Remove warning that repack only works on non-promisor packfiles
The git-repack doc clearly states that it does operate on promisor
packfiles (in a separate partition), with "-a" specified. Presumably the
statements here are outdated, as they feature from the first doc in 2017
(and the repack support was added in 2018)
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-968%2FTaoK%2Fpatch-1-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-968/TaoK/patch-1-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/968
Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
index 0780d30caca6..a0dd7c66f247 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt@@ -242,8 +242,7 @@ remote in a specific order. repository and can satisfy all such requests. - Repack essentially treats promisor and non-promisor packfiles as 2 - distinct partitions and does not mix them. Repack currently only works - on non-promisor packfiles and loose objects. + distinct partitions and does not mix them. - Dynamic object fetching invokes fetch-pack once *for each item* because most algorithms stumble upon a missing object and need to have
@@ -273,9 +272,6 @@ to use those promisor remotes in that order." The user might want to work in a triangular work flow with multiple promisor remotes that each have an incomplete view of the repository. -- Allow repack to work on promisor packfiles (while keeping them distinct - from non-promisor packfiles). - - Allow non-pathname-based filters to make use of packfile bitmaps (when present). This was just an omission during the initial implementation.
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