From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:26:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: approximate no_dependents with filter
Message-ID: <xmqqftxs82yh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180924154516.48704-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>

Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:

> This was prompted by a user at $DAY_JOB who had a partial clone
> excluding trees, and had a workflow that only required tree objects (and
> not blobs).
>
> This will hopefully make partial clones excluding trees (with the
> "tree:0" filter) a bit better, in that if an operation requires only
> trees to be inspected, the required download is much smaller.

This seems to break 5520 and 5616 when merged to 'pu'.  

It seems that merging master to md/filter-trees and then applying
this is sufficient to break 5616.