From: Jeff Hostetler Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:36:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] rev-list: add list-objects filtering support Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 11/16/2017 9:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Tan 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. > will do. thanks. Jeff