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authorRobert Coup <robert@coup.net.nz>2022-03-28 14:02:11 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-03-28 17:25:53 (GMT)
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docs: mention --refetch fetch option
Document it for partial clones as a means to apply a new filter, and reference it from the remote.<name>.partialclonefilter config parameter. Signed-off-by: Robert Coup <robert@coup.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ Fetching Missing Objects
currently fetches all objects referred to by the requested objects, even
though they are not necessary.
+- Fetching with `--refetch` will request a complete new filtered packfile from
+ the remote, which can be used to change a filter without needing to
+ dynamically fetch missing objects.
Using many promisor remotes
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