Re: [Bug] git fetch --dry-run --filter makes changes to .git/config

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2025, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqecs37ali.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250918203916.GA1199728@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> ... It is unfortunate that doing so updates the repo
> config, though. That may show a mismatch in how the promisor information
> is stored (it is really a property of the packfile in the object
> directory, but the config mechanism stores it in the main repo). But it
> is probably not worth trying to revisit at this point. It is only when
> you start to play weird games like "this repo's object directory is not
> $GIT_DIR/objects" that you run into these distinctions.

Hmph, but watching from the sidelines Patrick's topics that revolve around (re)defining the boundary and relationship among repository, object store, and on-disk packfiles with a more clearly defined abstractions like object_source, I am hoping that we somehow can find a good place to move this information out of the per-repo configuration to somewhere close to individual packs. I dunno.