From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:24:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] partial-clone: design doc
Message-ID: <xmqq1sjxuq0a.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171214152404.35708-2-git@jeffhostetler.com>

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?