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From: Hussain Sitamouwala <husainsitamuwala21@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, christian.couder@gmail.com,
	Hussain Sitamouwala <husainsitamuwala21@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] doc: describe promisor remote fetch order
Date: Sun,  8 Nov 2026 07:19:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261108071933.6586-1-husainsitamuwala21@gmail.com> (raw)

Explain that promisor remotes accepted from a server are tried
before other promisor remotes, and that the remaining objects are
requested from the next remote when a fetch fails. The ordering
was introduced by 8808e61fd3 (promisor-remote: try accepted
remotes before others in get_direct(), 2026-04-07).

Signed-off-by: Hussain Sitamouwala <husainsitamuwala21@gmail.com>
---
Changes since v1:
- shortened the subject and wrapped the commit message
- clarified what "accepted" means and the fetch fallback wording
- checked the wording against try_promisor_remotes()

 Documentation/technical/partial-clone.adoc | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.adoc b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.adoc
index 18718a3840..efe9acac65 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.adoc
@@ -195,7 +195,10 @@ cache servers for fetching missing blobs while continuing to do
 filtered `git-fetch` commands from the central server.
 
 When fetching objects, promisor remotes are tried one after the other
-until all the objects have been fetched.
+until all the objects have been fetched. Promisor remotes that the
+client accepted from a server's advertisement are tried before the
+other promisor remotes. If a fetch from a remote fails, the objects
+that are still missing are requested from the next remote.
 
 Remotes that are considered "promisor" remotes are those specified by
 the following configuration variables:
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-11-08  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-08  7:19 Hussain Sitamouwala [this message]
2026-11-08 18:45 ` [PATCH v2] doc: describe promisor remote fetch order Junio C Hamano
2026-11-08 19:07   ` Hussain Sitamouwala
2026-11-08 19:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-08 19:12   ` Hussain Sitamouwala
2026-11-08 19:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-08 19:22     ` Hussain Sitamouwala
2026-11-09 15:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-11-10 12:58         ` Hussain Sitamouwala
2026-11-08 21:38     ` [PATCH] environment: move assume_unchanged into repo_config_values Hussain Sitamouwala
2026-11-08 19:55 ` [PATCH v3] doc: describe promisor remote fetch order Hussain Sitamouwala
2026-11-09  5:09   ` Junio C Hamano

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