Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol

> On 27 Jun 2017, at 00:13, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> ...
> 
>>> I am wondering whose responsibility it will be to deal with a path
>>> "list-available" reports that are *not* asked by Git or Git got no
>>> "delayed" response.  The list subtraction done by the caller is
>>> probably the logical place to do so.
>> 
>> Correct. Git (the caller) will notice that not all "delayed" paths
>> are listed by the filter and throw an error at the end.
> 
> I am wondering about the other case.  Git didn't ask for a path to
> be filtered at all, but the filter sneaked in a path that happens to
> in the index in its response---Git should at least ignore it, and
> better yet, diagnose it as an error in the filter process.