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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-02-13 13:39:03 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-02-13 13:39:03 -0800
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parentMerge branch 'ab/simplify-perl-makefile' (diff)
parentgc: do not repack promisor packfiles (diff)
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Merge branch 'jh/fsck-promisors'
In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that promises to make them available on-demand and lazily. * jh/fsck-promisors: gc: do not repack promisor packfiles rev-list: support termination at promisor objects sha1_file: support lazily fetching missing objects introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor object index-pack: refactor writing of .keep files fsck: support promisor objects as CLI argument fsck: support referenced promisor objects fsck: support refs pointing to promisor objects fsck: introduce partialclone extension extension.partialclone: introduce partial clone extension
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@@ -86,3 +86,15 @@ for testing format-1 compatibility.
When the config key `extensions.preciousObjects` is set to `true`,
objects in the repository MUST NOT be deleted (e.g., by `git-prune` or
`git repack -d`).
+
+`partialclone`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+When the config key `extensions.partialclone` is set, it indicates
+that the repo was created with a partial clone (or later performed
+a partial fetch) and that the remote may have omitted sending
+certain unwanted objects. Such a remote is called a "promisor remote"
+and it promises that all such omitted objects can be fetched from it
+in the future.
+
+The value of this key is the name of the promisor remote.