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When fetching a pack from a promisor remote, the corresponding .promisor file needs to be created. "fetch-pack" originally did this by passing "--promisor" to "index-pack", but in5374a290aa("fetch-pack: write fetched refs to .promisor", 2019-10-16), "fetch-pack" was taught to do this itself instead, because it needed to store ref information in the .promisor file. This causes a problem with superprojects when transfer.fsckobjects is set, because in the current implementation, it is "index-pack" that calls fsck_finish() to check the objects; before5374a290aa, fsck_finish() would see that .gitmodules is a promisor object and tolerate it being missing, but after, there is no .promisor file (at the time of the invocation of fsck_finish() by "index-pack") to tell it that .gitmodules is a promisor object, so it returns an error. Therefore, teach "fetch-pack" to pass "--promisor" to index pack once again. "fetch-pack" will subsequently overwrite this file with the ref information. An alternative is to instead move object checking to "fetch-pack", and let "index-pack" only index the files. However, since "index-pack" has to inflate objects in order to index them, it seems reasonable to also let it check the objects (which also require inflated files). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks