Re: [PATCH] commit: detect commits that exist in commit-graph but not in the ODB
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I guess that is really like a global variable but even more gross. ;)
Yeah, I tend to agree, but ...
> But it is nice that it can cross process boundaries, because "how
> careful do we want to be" may be in the eye of the caller, especially
> for plumbing commands. E.g., even without --missing, you may want
> "rev-list" to be extra careful about checking the existence of commits.
... these are all very good points.
> The caller in check_connected() could arguably turn that on by default
> (the way we used to turn on GIT_REF_PARANOIA for pruning repacks before
> it became the default).
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>