Xin Li <delphij@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: (nothnig). Can you help readers by describing what this change is about? This space is reserved for the patch author to describe why this change is a good idea (if this patch is adding a new feature), what is already broken without this patch (if this patch is a bugfix), and why this change is a safe thing to do (if this patch lifts a limitation we had before that has been protecting us from getting into a bad state). > Signed-off-by: Xin Li <delphij@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > builtin/fetch.c | 12 ++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c > index 3ae52c015d..e5faa17ecd 100644 > --- a/builtin/fetch.c > +++ b/builtin/fetch.c > @@ -1790,8 +1790,16 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > if (depth || deepen_since || deepen_not.nr) > deepen = 1; > > - if (filter_options.choice && !has_promisor_remote()) > - die("--filter can only be used when extensions.partialClone is set"); > + if (filter_options.choice && !has_promisor_remote()) { > + char repo_version_string[10]; > + > + xsnprintf(repo_version_string, sizeof(repo_version_string), > + "%d", (int)GIT_REPO_VERSION); > + git_config_set("core.repositoryformatversion", > + repo_version_string); > + git_config_set("extensions.partialclone", "origin"); > + promisor_remote_reinit(); > + } > > if (all) { > if (argc == 1)