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| author |  Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> | 2020-08-17 21:01:36 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-08-18 16:46:53 -0700 |
| commit | 7ca3c0ac37bfb803f11db14b7223f6d8f0cd142e (patch) | |
| tree | 398fb7d6f2379542cfeae4db21a7e75046c3306a /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | fetch-pack: do not lazy-fetch during ref iteration (diff) | |
| download | tgif-7ca3c0ac37bfb803f11db14b7223f6d8f0cd142e.tar.xz | |
promisor-remote: lazy-fetch objects in subprocess
Teach Git to lazy-fetch missing objects in a subprocess instead of doing
it in-process. This allows any fatal errors that occur during the fetch
to be isolated and converted into an error return value, instead of
causing the current command being run to terminate.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt index b9e17e7a28..0780d30cac 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt @@ -171,20 +171,13 @@ additional flag. Fetching Missing Objects ------------------------ -- Fetching of objects is done using the existing transport mechanism using - transport_fetch_refs(), setting a new transport option - TRANS_OPT_NO_DEPENDENTS to indicate that only the objects themselves are - desired, not any object that they refer to. -+ -Because some transports invoke fetch_pack() in the same process, fetch_pack() -has been updated to not use any object flags when the corresponding argument -(no_dependents) is set. +- Fetching of objects is done by invoking a "git fetch" subprocess. - The local repository sends a request with the hashes of all requested - objects as "want" lines, and does not perform any packfile negotiation. + objects, and does not perform any packfile negotiation. It then receives a packfile. -- Because we are reusing the existing fetch-pack mechanism, fetching +- Because we are reusing the existing fetch mechanism, fetching currently fetches all objects referred to by the requested objects, even though they are not necessary. |