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authorTao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>2021-06-02 11:47:26 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-06-04 09:45:47 +0900
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Remove warning that repack only works on non-promisor packfiles
The git-repack doc clearly states that it *does* operate on promisor packfiles (in a separate partition), with "-a" specified. Presumably the statements here are outdated, as they feature from the first doc in 2017 (and the repack support was added in 2018) Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -242,8 +242,7 @@ remote in a specific order.
repository and can satisfy all such requests.
- Repack essentially treats promisor and non-promisor packfiles as 2
- distinct partitions and does not mix them. Repack currently only works
- on non-promisor packfiles and loose objects.
+ distinct partitions and does not mix them.
- Dynamic object fetching invokes fetch-pack once *for each item*
because most algorithms stumble upon a missing object and need to have
@@ -273,9 +272,6 @@ to use those promisor remotes in that order."
The user might want to work in a triangular work flow with multiple
promisor remotes that each have an incomplete view of the repository.
-- Allow repack to work on promisor packfiles (while keeping them distinct
- from non-promisor packfiles).
-
- Allow non-pathname-based filters to make use of packfile bitmaps (when
present). This was just an omission during the initial implementation.