From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:36:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] revision: unify {tree,blob}_objects in rev_info
Message-ID: <xmqq7f47cyqa.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170228215937.yd4juycjf7y3vish@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:42:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
>> 
>> > It could be argued that in the future, Git might need to distinguish
>> > tree_objects from blob_objects - in particular, a user might want
>> > rev-list to print the trees but not the blobs. 
>> 
>> That was exactly why these bits were originally made to "appear
>> independent but in practice nobody sets only one and leaves others
>> off".  
>> 
>> And it didn't happen in the past 10 years, which tells us that we
>> should take this patch.
>
> I actually have a patch which uses the distinction. It's for
> upload-archive doing reachability checks (which seems rather familiar to
> what's going on here).

OK.  Thanks for stopping me ;-)