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[GSoC] question for an additional objective

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Pablo <pabloosabaterr@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2026, 17:13 UTC
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Hi! I'm working on my proposal for 'Complete and extend the remote-object-info command for git cat-file'

While thinking about what else I could suggest to contribute to the project, I had an idea I would like to get feedback on: In a partial clone, someone might want to know what blobs are missing inside a concrete tree and their size before fetching them.

The idea is to build on top of 'remote-object-info': given a tree hash, return the missing blobs (inside that tree) ordered by size.

Is this too ambitious to be on the same project or even a good idea?

Thanks, Pablo.

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  1. PabloMar 11, 2026
  2. Chandra PratapMar 14, 2026
  3. PabloMar 14, 2026
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