From: Tao Klerks <tao@xxxxxxxxxx>
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the statements here are outdated, as they feature from the first doc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 <tao@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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statements here are outdated, as they feature from the first doc in 2017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.
base-commit: ed125c4f07ba69c53c9f4d74ff395a4bf7854ea7
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