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Will mirroring still work with the promisors?

Will mirroring still work with the promisors?

Posted Feb 15, 2026 14:45 UTC (Sun) by gray_-_wolf (subscriber, #131074)
Parent article: Evolving Git for the next decade

I like that you can clone a repository with --mirror, and have a full back up that you know contains everything. Will something like that still be possible with the promisors? Or will you clone with --mirror, try to checkout a reference few years later and see that the offload to CDN is 404? Does anyone know what will the UX be here?

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Will mirroring still work with the promisors?

Posted Feb 17, 2026 14:25 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I imagine `--mirror` (the flag) would realize all objects. I would expect a manual refspec of `+refs/*:refs/*` to observe promisors. But this may require a configuration file change to indicate the desire to locally realize all objects (that `--mirror` then uses). Not sure what this means for existing `--mirror` clones that lack the flag.


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