From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:42:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] Partial clone part 2: fsck and promisors
Message-ID: <CAGf8dg+UQ7eRxcBNJkzr_tZFMYxO-z4Z5Emi1HefEhtqJebe6Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171122100014.937f5902c3714e6e26e20a1b@google.com>

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:25:13 +0900
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, will replace/queue all three series.  I am getting a feeling
>> that the first one is already ready for 'next', while the other two
>> may want to see a bit more comments?
>
> Yes, I think so too.
>
> Jeff Hostetler and I noticed some issues occuring when some other Git
> commands dynamically fetch objects due to the fact that those commands
> and fetch-pack use overlapping object flags. At the very least, we
> should look at that before it goes into next.

In the end, making fetch-pack refrain from setting object flags when
being used to dynamically fetch objects works (see the new "introduce
fetch-object: fetch one promisor object" commit that I just pushed to
[1]). I'll coordinate with Jeff Hostetler about sending v6 to the list
(most likely after the U.S. Thanksgiving holidays).

[1] https://github.com/jonathantanmy/git/commits/pc20171122