Re: [Question] Is extensions.partialClone defunct?

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2020, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1LibB=BBhhAvVENCrZy52vUMDNnY04Hvkh=OJtzhQpNw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0+fyz=S_VN=EzPOOxNSNkge0uB84kEqQD_mudsFtR8Lg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:54 PM Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 6:51 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jonathan Tan wrote:
> > > Derrick Stolee wrote:
> >
> > >> 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.
>
> That could be true of "remote.<name>.promisor = true".

I mean for future versions, not for old versions.