Re: [Question] Is extensions.partialClone defunct?

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2020, 17:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20200312175151.GB120942@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200312170714.180996-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

Jonathan Tan wrote:

> Derrick Stolee wrote:

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>> but it appears that we rely on the "remote.<name>.promisor = true"
>> setting instead of this extension.
>
> Hmm...besides giving the name of the promisor remote, the
> extensions.partialClone setting is there to prevent old versions of Git
> (that do not know this extension) from manipulating the repo.

Yes, so the lack of setting is a bug.

Christian, what would your prefered way be to fix this? Should extensions.partialclone specify a particular "default" promisor remote, or should we use a new repository extension for multiple promisors?

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> I cloned and indeed it is as Stolee describes. Git still works as
> expected if I remove "promisor = true" and add
> "[extensions]\npartialclone=origin", so at least extensions.partialClone
> is still supported, even if not written by default.

Thanks for investigating.

Sincerely, Jonathan