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This is a follow-up to a6c786fce8 (Mark http-fetch without -a as
deprecated, 2011-08-23). For more than six years, we have been warning
when `-a` is not provided, and the documentation has been saying that
`-a` will become the default.
It is a bit unclear what "default" means here. There is no such thing as
`http-fetch --no-a`. But according to my searches, no-one has been
asking on the mailing list how they should silence the warning and
prepare for overriding the flipped default. So let's assume that
everybody is happy with `-a`. They should be, since not using it may
break the repo in such a way that Git itself is unable to fix it.
Always behave as if `-a` was given. Since `-a` implies `-c` (get commit
objects) and `-t` (get trees), all three options are now unnecessary.
Document all of these as historical artefacts that have no effect.
Leave no-op code for handling these options in http-fetch.c. The
options-handling is currently rather loose. If someone tightens it, we
will not want these ignored options to accidentally turn into hard
errors.
Since `-a` was the only safe and sane usage and we have been pushing
people towards it for a long time, refrain from warning when it is used
"unnecessarily" now. Similarly, do not add anything scary-looking to the
man-page about how it will be removed in the future. We can always do so
later. (It is not like we are in desperate need of freeing up
one-letter arguments.)
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-http-fetch(1)
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NAME
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git-http-fetch - Download from a remote Git repository via HTTP
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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'git http-fetch' [-c] [-t] [-a] [-d] [-v] [-w filename] [--recover] [--stdin] <commit> <url>
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Downloads a remote Git repository via HTTP.
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This command always gets all objects. Historically, there were three options
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`-a`, `-c` and `-t` for choosing which objects to download. They are now
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silently ignored.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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commit-id::
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Either the hash or the filename under [URL]/refs/ to
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pull.
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-a, -c, -t::
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These options are ignored for historical reasons.
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-v::
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Report what is downloaded.
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-w <filename>::
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Writes the commit-id into the filename under $GIT_DIR/refs/<filename> on
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the local end after the transfer is complete.
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--stdin::
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Instead of a commit id on the command line (which is not expected in this
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case), 'git http-fetch' expects lines on stdin in the format
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<commit-id>['\t'<filename-as-in--w>]
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--recover::
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Verify that everything reachable from target is fetched. Used after
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an earlier fetch is interrupted.
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GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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