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Re: [PATCH] Remove warning that repack only works on non-promisor packfiles

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 4, 2021, 01:03 UTC
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Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
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>> On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 11:47:26AM +0000, Tao Klerks via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> > From: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
>> >
>> > The git-repack doc clearly states that it *does* operate on promisor
>> > packfiles (in a separate partition), with "-a" specified. Presumably
>> > the statements here are outdated, as they feature from the first doc
>> > in 2017 (and the repack support was added in 2018)
>> 
>> Yeah, this all originally comes from Jeff H.'s design document in
>> 637fc4467e (partial-clone: design doc, 2017-12-14), but probably should
>> have been updated in 5d19e8138d (repack: repack promisor objects if -a
>> or -A is set, 2018-08-08).
>> 
>> This looks good to me, but I'll add Jonathan Tan to the CC list to
>> double check.
>> 
>>   Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
>
> Thanks, Taylor. Yes, the patch is correct.
Thanks, all of you.  Will queue.
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Message 4 of 4 in “Remove warning that repack only works on non-promisor packfiles”
  1. Remove warning that repack only works on non-promisor packfilesTao Klerks via GitGitGadget, Jun 2, 2021
  2. Taylor BlauJun 2, 2021
  3. Jonathan TanJun 3, 2021
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2021

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