fetch: allow adding a filter after initial clone

Retroactively adding a filter can be useful for existing shallow clones as
they allow users to see earlier change histories without downloading all
git objects in a regular --unshallow fetch.

Without this patch, users can make a clone partial by editing the
repository configuration to convert the remote into a promisor, like:

  git config core.repositoryFormatVersion 1
  git config extensions.partialClone origin
  git fetch --unshallow --filter=blob:none origin

Since the hard part of making this work is already in place and such
edits can be error-prone, teach Git to perform the required configuration
change automatically instead.

Note that this change does not modify the existing git behavior which
recognizes setting extensions.partialClone without changing
repositoryFormatVersion.

Signed-off-by: Xin Li <delphij@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t0410-partial-clone.sh b/t/t0410-partial-clone.sh
index a3988bd4b8..16ad000382 100755
--- a/t/t0410-partial-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t0410-partial-clone.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ test_expect_success 'extensions.partialclone without filter' '
 	git -C client fetch origin
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'convert shallow clone to partial clone' '
+	rm -fr server client &&
+	test_create_repo server &&
+	test_commit -C server my_commit 1 &&
+	test_commit -C server my_commit2 1 &&
+	git clone --depth=1 "file://$(pwd)/server" client &&
+	git -C client fetch --unshallow --filter="blob:none" &&
+	test_cmp_config -C client true remote.origin.promisor &&
+	test_cmp_config -C client blob:none remote.origin.partialclonefilter &&
+	test_cmp_config -C client 1 core.repositoryformatversion
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'missing reflog object, but promised by a commit, passes fsck' '
 	rm -rf repo &&
 	test_create_repo repo &&