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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-05-08 15:59:35 +0900
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-05-08 15:59:35 +0900
commit96f29521a3908eb80b9552f11f2b75ca34475686 (patch)
tree191eb44839fcb0f417d87da2cb7ca92ce63c936d /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'js/runtime-prefix' (diff)
parentwalker: drop fields of `struct walker` which are always 1 (diff)
downloadtgif-96f29521a3908eb80b9552f11f2b75ca34475686.tar.xz
Merge branch 'ma/http-walker-no-partial'
"git http-fetch" (deprecated) had an optional and experimental "feature" to fetch only commits and/or trees, which nobody used. This has been removed. * ma/http-walker-no-partial: walker: drop fields of `struct walker` which are always 1 http-fetch: make `-a` standard behaviour
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
index 21a33d2c41..666b042679 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
Downloads a remote Git repository via HTTP.
-*NOTE*: use of this command without -a is deprecated. The -a
-behaviour will become the default in a future release.
+This command always gets all objects. Historically, there were three options
+`-a`, `-c` and `-t` for choosing which objects to download. They are now
+silently ignored.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -24,12 +25,8 @@ commit-id::
Either the hash or the filename under [URL]/refs/ to
pull.
--c::
- Get the commit objects.
--t::
- Get trees associated with the commit objects.
--a::
- Get all the objects.
+-a, -c, -t::
+ These options are ignored for historical reasons.
-v::
Report what is downloaded.