From: Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 9535ce7337 (pack-objects: add list-objects filtering, 2017-11-21) taught pack-objects to use --filter, but required the use of --stdout since a partial clone mechanism was not yet in place to handle missing objects. Since then, changes like 9e27beaa23 (promisor-remote: implement promisor_remote_get_direct(), 2019-06-25) and others added support to dynamically fetch objects that were missing. Remove the --stdout requirement so that in a follow-up commit, repack can pass --filter to pack-objects to omit certain objects from the resulting packfile. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/pack-objects.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c index 2193f80b89..aa0b13d015 100644 --- a/builtin/pack-objects.c +++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c @@ -4371,12 +4371,8 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (!rev_list_all || !rev_list_reflog || !rev_list_index) 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")); - } + if (stdin_packs && filter_options.choice) + die(_("cannot use --filter with --stdin-packs")); if (stdin_packs && use_internal_rev_list) die(_("cannot use internal rev list with --stdin-packs")); -- 2.39.0.59.g395bcb85bc.dirty