From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 21:08:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: in partial clone, pass --promisor
Message-ID: <20200821210827.1203531-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqimddaxhz.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

> Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
> 
> > When fetching a pack from a promisor remote, the corresponding .promisor
> > file needs to be created. "fetch-pack" originally did this by passing
> > "--promisor" to "index-pack", but in 5374a290aa ("fetch-pack: write
> > fetched refs to .promisor", 2019-10-16), "fetch-pack" was taught to do
> > this itself instead, because it needed to store ref information in the
> > .promisor file.
> 
> So is this patch a fix for a regression in v2.25?

Yes. (Just checked with "git merge-base" that 5374a290aa is in v2.25.0
but not v2.24.0.)