Re: [PATCH 00/18] Partial clone (from clone to lazy fetch in 18 patches)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 29, 2017, 21:08 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1709292301440.40514@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1506714999.git.jonathantanmy@google.com>

Hi Jonathan,

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, Jonathan Tan wrote:

> Jeff Hostetler has sent out some object-filtering patches [1] that is a
> superset of the object-filtering functionality that I have (in the
> pack-objects patches). I have gone for the minimal approach here, but if
> his patches are merged, I'll update my patch set to use those.

I wish there was a way for you to work *with* Jeff on this. It seems that your aims are similar enough for that (you both need changes in the protocol) yet different enough to allow for talking past each other (big blobs vs narrow clone).

And I get the impression that in this instance, it slows everything down to build competing, large patch series rather than building on top of each other's work.

Additionally, I am not helping by pestering Jeff all the time about different issues, so it is partially my fault.

But maybe there is a chance to *really* go for a minimal approach, as in "incremental enough that you can share the first <N> patches"? And even better: "come up with those first <N> patches together"?

Ciao, Dscho