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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, markbt@efaref.net, benpeart@microsoft.com,
	jonathantanmy@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] pack-objects: add --partial-by-size=n --partial-special
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 02:04:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170309070438.r5g2h5vlmgzds4kp@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c38ffbc-e4a2-32e5-d324-506c2111043e@jeffhostetler.com>

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:21:11PM -0500, Jeff Hostetler wrote:

> > And not ."gitmodules"?
> > 
> > What happens when we later add ".gitsomethingelse"?
> > 
> > Do we have to worry about the case where the set of git "special
> > files" (can we have a better name for them please, by the way?)
> > understood by the sending side and the receiving end is different?
> > 
> > I have a feeling that a mode that makes anything whose name begins
> > with ".git" excempt from the size based cutoff may generally be
> > easier to handle.
> 
> I forgot about ".gitmodules".  The more I think about it, maybe
> we should always include them (or anything starting with ".git*")
> and ignore the size, since they are important for correct behavior.

I'm also in favor of staking out ".git*" as "this is special and belongs
to Git".

A while back when we discussed whether to allow symlinks for
.gitattributes, etc, I think the consensus was to treat the whole
".git*" namespace consistently. I haven't followed up with patches yet,
but my plan was to go that route.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-09  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-08 17:37 [PATCH 00/10] RFC Partial Clone and Fetch Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 01/10] pack-objects: eat CR in addition to LF after fgets Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-09  7:01   ` Jeff King
2017-03-09 15:46     ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 02/10] pack-objects: add --partial-by-size=n --partial-special Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-08 20:21     ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-09  7:04       ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-03-10 17:58         ` Brandon Williams
2017-03-10 18:03           ` Jeff King
2017-03-10 19:38             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-10 19:47               ` Jeff King
2017-03-09  7:31   ` Jeff King
2017-03-09 18:26     ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 03/10] pack-objects: test for --partial-by-size --partial-special Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-09  7:35   ` Jeff King
2017-03-09 18:11   ` Johannes Sixt
2017-03-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 04/10] upload-pack: add partial (sparse) fetch Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-09  7:48   ` Jeff King
2017-03-09 18:34     ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-09 19:09       ` Jeff King
2017-03-08 17:38 ` [PATCH 05/10] fetch-pack: add partial-by-size and partial-special Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 17:38 ` [PATCH 06/10] rev-list: add --allow-partial option to relax connectivity checks Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 18:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-08 20:10     ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-09  7:56       ` Jeff King
2017-03-09 18:38         ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 17:38 ` [PATCH 07/10] index-pack: add --allow-partial option to relax blob existence checks Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 17:38 ` [PATCH 08/10] fetch: add partial-by-size and partial-special arguments Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 17:38 ` [PATCH 09/10] clone: " Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-08 17:38 ` [PATCH 10/10] ls-partial: created command to list missing blobs Jeff Hostetler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-08 18:50 [PATCH 00/10] RFC Partial Clone and Fetch git
2017-03-08 18:50 ` [PATCH 02/10] pack-objects: add --partial-by-size=n --partial-special git

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