From: John Cai <redacted>

9535ce7 taught pack-objects to use filtering, but added a requirement of
the --stdout since a partial clone mechanism was not yet in place to
handle missing objects. Since then, changes like 9e27beaa and others
added support to dynamically fetch objects that were missing.

Remove the --stdout requirement so that in the next commit, repack can
pass --filter to pack-objects to omit certain objects from the packfile.

Based-on-patch-by: Christian Couder [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: John Cai <redacted>
---
 builtin/pack-objects.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index ba2006f2212..2d1ecb18784 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c

@@ -4075,8 +4075,6 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		unpack_unreachable_expiration = 0;
 
 	if (filter_options.choice) {
-		if (!pack_to_stdout)
-			die(_("cannot use --filter without --stdout"));
 		if (stdin_packs)
 			die(_("cannot use --filter with --stdin-packs"));
 	}

-- 
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