Re: [PATCH v2] partial-clone: design doc

> Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com> writes:
> 
>> +- On the client these incomplete packfiles are marked as "promisor pacfiles"
> 
> s/pacfiles/packfiles/
> 
>> +  These "promisor packfiles" consist of a "<name>.promisor" file with
>> +  arbitrary contents (like the "<name>.keep" files), in addition to
>> +  their "<name>.pack" and "<name>.idx" files.
>> +
>> +  In the future, this ability may be extended to loose objects in case
>> +  a promisor packfile is accidentally unpacked.
> 
> Hmph.
> 
> Because we cannot assume that such an "accidental" unpacking would
> do anything extra to help us tell the loose objects created out of a
> promisor pack from other loose objects, you would end up making any
> and all loose objects to serve as if they came from a promisor
> remote?  I am not sure if that makes much sense.
> 
> Do we really need to write this "in the future" down, before we have
> thought things through enough to specify the design at a bit more
> detailed level?
>