From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:03:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/15] pack-bitmap: refuse to do a bitmap traversal with pathspecs
Message-ID: <xmqqeeuxng8x.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200214182216.GD150965@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It would also prepare us for a day where this case _is_ handled, but
> that's pretty unlikely. E.g., we could use bitmaps to generate the set
> of commits, and then diff each commit to see if it matches the pathspec.

Would the gs/commit-graph-path-filter topic possibly help in this regard?
I was wondering how it would fit within the framework this series sets
up to teach object-filtering and reachability-bitmap codepaths to
work well together.