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authorLibravatar Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>2020-08-17 21:01:31 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-08-18 13:25:05 -0700
commitcbe566a0710b39691ca8f6cb6a764f6c553cd97b (patch)
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parentfetch: optionally allow disabling FETCH_HEAD update (diff)
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negotiator/noop: add noop fetch negotiator
Add a noop fetch negotiator. This is introduced to allow partial clones to skip the unneeded negotiation step when fetching missing objects using a "git fetch" subprocess. (The implementation of spawning a "git fetch" subprocess will be done in a subsequent patch.) But this can also be useful for end users, e.g. as a blunt fix for object corruption. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
index b20394038d..6af6f5edb2 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ fetch.negotiationAlgorithm::
sent when negotiating the contents of the packfile to be sent by the
server. Set to "skipping" to use an algorithm that skips commits in an
effort to converge faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary
- packfile; The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm
+ packfile; or set to "noop" to not send any information at all, which
+ will almost certainly result in a larger-than-necessary packfile, but
+ will skip the negotiation step.
+ The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm
that never skips commits (unless the server has acknowledged it or one
of its descendants). If `feature.experimental` is enabled, then this
setting defaults to "skipping".