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@@ -82,5 +82,7 @@ remote.<name>.promisor::
objects.
remote.<name>.partialclonefilter::
- The filter that will be applied when fetching from this
- promisor remote.
+ The filter that will be applied when fetching from this promisor remote.
+ Changing or clearing this value will only affect fetches for new commits.
+ To fetch associated objects for commits already present in the local object
+ database, use the `--refetch` option of linkgit:git-fetch[1].