From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:51:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Lazy fetch with subprocess
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