From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:07:43 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: Resumable clone based on hybrid "smart" and "dumb" HTTP
Message-ID: <xmqqd1s4z334.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160210210115.GA10155@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> --strict + --check-self-contained-and-connected check that the pack
> is self-contained.  In the process they mark each object that is
> reachable from another object in the pack with FLAG_LINK.
>
> The objects not marked with FLAG_LINK are the roots.

Ahh, OK, if we already have the code that does it, I have no
objection.  At some point before finalizing the pack on the disk we
would want to run fsck on all objects anyway, so having to pass
"--strict" to find objects that lack FLAG_LINK does not sound too
big a downside.

Thanks.