From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:12:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] list-objects-filter: only parse sparse OID when 'have_git_dir'
Message-ID: <xmqqv9u1l7ha.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <f32d2e8c-abec-0ec1-daa7-4c10470c5553@jeffhostetler.com>

Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com> writes:

> It would be nice if we could continue to let parse_list_objects_filter()
> do the syntax checking -- that is, we can still check that we received a
> ulong in "blob:limit:<nr>" and that "sparse:oid:<oid>" looks like a hex
> value, for example.  Just save the actual <oid> lookup to the higher
> layer, if and when that makes sense.

Hmmm, am I misremembering things or did I hear somebody mention in
this thread that people give "sparse:oid:master" (not blob object
name in hex, but a refname) and expect the other side to resolve it?