On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:54 PM Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 6:51 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Jonathan Tan wrote: > > > Derrick Stolee wrote: > > > > >> but it appears that we rely on the "remote.<name>.promisor = true" > > >> setting instead of this extension. > > > > > > Hmm...besides giving the name of the promisor remote, the > > > extensions.partialClone setting is there to prevent old versions of Git > > > (that do not know this extension) from manipulating the repo. > > That could be true of "remote.<name>.promisor = true". I mean for future versions, not for old versions.