Re: [PATCH 3/3] rev-list: add --allow-missing-tips to be used with --missing=...

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2024, 16:34 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfry4cjxt.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <owlyttmkmwaf.fsf@fine.c.googlers.com>

Linus Arver <linusa@google.com> writes:

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> IOW, make the minority (certainly not majority, I think?) of users who
> really need the error propagation use the (new) extra flag, while the
> rest of us (including the version of you who was surprised by the
> limited behavior of "--missing=...", enough to write this series) don't
> have to.

I am skeptical that we even want that. Those who want to use the "--missing" and care about special casing missing starting points can easily check with things like "cat-file -e" before even running the "rev-list --missing".