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[PATCH] Doc: no midx and partial clone relation

From
JTJonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date
Nov 22, 2021, 18:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20211122184114.3328662-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

The multi-pack index treats promisor packfiles (that is, packfiles that have an accompanying .promisor file) the same as other packfiles. Remove a section in the documentation that seems to indicate otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
---
Stolee, can you check if my understanding is correct?
To my recollection, midx does not treat promisor packfiles specially,
and searching for "promisor" in midx.c seems to support that (the only
results are relating to selection of commits for midx bitmap creation).
---
 Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt b/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt
index 86f40f2490..fc213cd1e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt
@@ -87,11 +87,6 @@ Future Work
   helpful to organize packfiles by object type (commit, tree, blob,
   etc.) and use this metadata to help that maintenance.
 
-- The partial clone feature records special "promisor" packs that
-  may point to objects that are not stored locally, but available
-  on request to a server. The multi-pack-index does not currently
-  track these promisor packs.
-
 Related Links
 -------------
 [0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/git/issues/detail?id=6
-- 
2.34.0.rc2.393.gf8c9666880-goog
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