Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] list-objects-filter: only parse sparse OID when 'have_git_dir'

> Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com> writes:
> 
>> It would be nice if we could continue to let parse_list_objects_filter()
>> do the syntax checking -- that is, we can still check that we received a
>> ulong in "blob:limit:<nr>" and that "sparse:oid:<oid>" looks like a hex
>> value, for example.  Just save the actual <oid> lookup to the higher
>> layer, if and when that makes sense.
> 
> Hmmm, am I misremembering things or did I hear somebody mention in
> this thread that people give "sparse:oid:master" (not blob object
> name in hex, but a refname) and expect the other side to resolve it?
>