Re: [PATCH 0/2] [WIP] removed fetch_if_missing global

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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 9:57 PM Hariom Verma via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We are not much happy with global variable fetch_if_missing. So, in commit
> > 6462d5eb9a ("fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0", 2019-11-08) Jonathan Tan
> > jonathantanmy@google.com [jonathantanmy@google.com] attempted to remove the
> > need for fetch_if_missing=0 from the fetching mechanism. After that,
> > fetch_if_missing is removed from clone and promisor-remote too.
>
> You might want to add Jonathan in Cc next time, as it could help your
> patches move forward. I have added him to this email.
>
> > I imitated the same logic to remove fetch_if_missing from fetch-pack &
> > index-pack.
>
> Maybe you could add a few tests as in 6462d5eb9a.
>
> > I'm looking forward to remove fetch_if_missing from other places too, but I
> > not sure about how to handle it.
>
> It is ok to not take care of the other places for now. If that was the
> only reason why this patch series is marked as WIP, then you might
> want to remove WIP, especially if you add tests.
>
> > In fsck, fetch_if_missing is set to 0 in the beginning of cmd_fsck().
> >
> > In rev-list, fetch_if_missing is set to 0 in parse_missing_action_value(),
> > and in cmd_rev_list() while parsing the command-line parameters.(almost
> > similar case in pack-objects)
> >
> > fixes #251
>
> It would be nice if you could give the full URL of the bug, as there
> have been different bug trackers used by different people.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.