Re: [PATCH 16/18] count-objects: report alternates via verbose mode

> \On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > There's no way to get the list of alternates that git
> > computes internally; our tests only infer it based on which
> > objects are available. In addition to testing, knowing this
> > list may be helpful for somebody debugging their alternates
> > setup.
> >
> > Let's add it to the "count-objects -v" output. We could give
> > it a separate flag, but there's not really any need.
> > "count-objects -v" is already a debugging catch-all for the
> > object database, its output is easily extensible to new data
> > items, and printing the alternates is not expensive (we
> > already had to find them to count the objects).
> >
> 
> Makes sense. Unless there's a compelling reason you'd want to print
> out these alternates *without* anything else from -v, but you can just
> use grep like the test does so this seems fine to me.