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| author | Robert Coup <robert@coup.net.nz> | 2022-03-28 14:02:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-03-28 10:25:53 -0700 |
| commit | 4963d3e41fa454500760fe6f8fb1bab890c1c3eb (patch) | |
| tree | e214d8791369113cb8d054d2bf62153fbe3258e4 | |
| parent | fetch: after refetch, encourage auto gc repacking (diff) | |
| download | git-4963d3e41fa454500760fe6f8fb1bab890c1c3eb.tar.gz git-4963d3e41fa454500760fe6f8fb1bab890c1c3eb.zip | |
docs: mention --refetch fetch option
Document it for partial clones as a means to apply a new filter, and
reference it from the remote.<name>.partialclonefilter config parameter.
Signed-off-by: Robert Coup <robert@coup.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/remote.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/remote.txt b/Documentation/config/remote.txt index a8e6437a90..0678b4bcfe 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/remote.txt @@ -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]. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt index a0dd7c66f2..99f0eb3040 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt @@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ Fetching Missing Objects currently fetches all objects referred to by the requested objects, even though they are not necessary. +- Fetching with `--refetch` will request a complete new filtered packfile from + the remote, which can be used to change a filter without needing to + dynamically fetch missing objects. Using many promisor remotes --------------------------- |