9535ce7337 (pack-objects: add list-objects filtering, 2017-11-21)
taught `git 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.
Even without a promisor remote, filtering out objects can also be useful
if we can put the filtered out objects in a separate pack, and in this
case it also makes sense for pack-objects to write the packfile directly
to an actual file rather than on stdout.
Remove the `--stdout` requirement when using `--filter`, 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>
---
Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 4 ++--
builtin/pack-objects.c | 8 ++------
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index a9995a932c..583270a85f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ So does `git bundle` (see linkgit:git-bundle[1]) when it creates a bundle.
nevertheless.
--filter=<filter-spec>::
- Requires `--stdout`. Omits certain objects (usually blobs) from
- the resulting packfile. See linkgit:git-rev-list[1] for valid
+ Omits certain objects (usually blobs) from the resulting
+ packfile. See linkgit:git-rev-list[1] for valid
`<filter-spec>` forms.
--no-filter::
diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index 9cfc8801f9..af007868c1 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -4388,12 +4388,8 @@ 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"));
--
2.41.0.37.gae45d9845e
