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| author | Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> | 2017-12-05 16:58:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-12-05 09:46:05 -0800 |
| commit | 75b97fec171dbbf7ec73960cefb50c265cfb7af7 (patch) | |
| tree | c15613ea262cfa6be8009556d6129898b3b9e9c8 /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | f4371a883fa2d740d6b3cd436f62c9b56f13432e (diff) | |
| download | git-75b97fec171dbbf7ec73960cefb50c265cfb7af7.tar.xz | |
extension.partialclone: introduce partial clone extension
Introduce new repository extension option:
`extensions.partialclone`
See the update to Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt
in this patch for more information.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt b/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt index 00ad37986e..e03eaccebc 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt @@ -86,3 +86,15 @@ for testing format-1 compatibility. When the config key `extensions.preciousObjects` is set to `true`, objects in the repository MUST NOT be deleted (e.g., by `git-prune` or `git repack -d`). + +`partialclone` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When the config key `extensions.partialclone` is set, it indicates +that the repo was created with a partial clone (or later performed +a partial fetch) and that the remote may have omitted sending +certain unwanted objects. Such a remote is called a "promisor remote" +and it promises that all such omitted objects can be fetched from it +in the future. + +The value of this key is the name of the promisor remote. |