Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Lazy fetch with subprocess

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2020, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <9d969367-72ba-828b-ca75-29eb532cecee@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1597184948.git.jonathantanmy@google.com>

On 8/11/2020 6:52 PM, Jonathan Tan wrote:

>  - A way to prevent a promisor-remote fetch from invoking another
>    promisor-remote fetch (use a file as a lock?)

In the VFS for Git world, the C# layer frequently needs to ask Git for some information, but doesn't want to trigger a download of a missing object. We use a config option when running our command that disables the GVFS protocol for that command.

It's possible that a config option _or_ environment variable would suffice instead of adding another file-based lock.

Thanks, -Stolee

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