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

> 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.