Re: [PATCH] partial-clone: add a partial-clone test case

From: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2022, 08:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20220316080629.63999-1-chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv8wffb34.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> That sounds like pointing at a different issue.  If the test
> repository downloads the blobs at the tip, then the fact that the
> trace output did not have "fetch" in it does not mean much, does it?
> It could be that we refrained from lazily download the blob because
> we did not need its contents for the purpose of following through an
> exact rename, but it could also be that we did not need to lazily
> download it because we already had it.

hmm, you're right.

> So regardless of "--missing=print" vs "grep in trace", there was a
> bug in the test set-up, and we caught it in this discussion, which
> is excellent.

:)