Thread (55 messages) 55 messages, 6 authors, 2022-04-01
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[PATCH 6/6] doc/partial-clone: mention --refilter option

From: Robert Coup via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2022-02-01 15:50:08
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

From: Robert Coup <redacted>

Add the fetch --refilter option to the partial clone documentation.

Signed-off-by: Robert Coup <redacted>
---
 Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
index a0dd7c66f24..e246b0778e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ Fetching Missing Objects
   currently fetches all objects referred to by the requested objects, even
   though they are not necessary.
 
+- Fetching with `--refilter` will request a complete new filtered packfile from
+  the remote, which can be used to change a filter without needing to
+  dynamically fetch missing objects.
 
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