Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] rev-list: add list-objects filtering support

> Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
> 
>> If it were up to me, I would remove all existing mentions of "partial
>> clone" and explain the presence of the "--missing" argument as follows:
>>
>>      In the future, we will introduce a "partial clone" mechanism wherein
>>      an object in a repo, obtained from a remote, may reference a missing
>>      object that can be dynamically fetched from that remote once needed.
>>      This "partial clone" mechanism will have a way, sometimes slow, of
>>      determining if a missing link is one of the links expected to be
>>      produced by this mechanism.
>>
>>      This patch introduces handling of missing objects to help debugging
>>      and development of the "partial clone" mechanism, and once the
>>      mechanism is implemented, for a power user to perform operations
>>      that are missing-object-aware without incurring the cost of checking
>>      if a missing link is expected.
> 
> That sounds quite sensible.
>