pack-objects: allow `--filter` without `--stdout`
9535ce7337 (pack-objects: add list-objects filtering, 2017-11-21)
taught `git pack-objects` to use `--filter`, but required the use of
`--stdout` since a partial clone mechanism was not yet in place to
handle missing objects. Since then, changes like 9e27beaa23
(promisor-remote: implement promisor_remote_get_direct(), 2019-06-25)
and others added support to dynamically fetch objects that were missing.
Even without a promisor remote, filtering out objects can also be useful
if we can put the filtered out objects in a separate pack, and in this
case it also makes sense for pack-objects to write the packfile directly
to an actual file rather than on stdout.
Remove the `--stdout` requirement when using `--filter`, so that in a
follow-up commit, repack can pass `--filter` to pack-objects to omit
certain objects from the resulting packfile.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index 6eb9756..89a8b5a 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -4402,12 +4402,8 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (!rev_list_all || !rev_list_reflog || !rev_list_index)
unpack_unreachable_expiration = 0;
- if (filter_options.choice) {
- if (!pack_to_stdout)
- die(_("cannot use --filter without --stdout"));
- if (stdin_packs)
- die(_("cannot use --filter with --stdin-packs"));
- }
+ if (stdin_packs && filter_options.choice)
+ die(_("cannot use --filter with --stdin-packs"));
if (stdin_packs && use_internal_rev_list)
die(_("cannot use internal rev list with --stdin-packs"));
