Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Partial clone part 1: object filtering

[Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>]

On Thu,  2 Nov 2017 17:50:07 +0000
Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com> wrote:

> From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
> 
> Here is V2 of the list-object filtering. It replaces [1]
> and reflect a refactoring and simplification of the original.

Thanks, overall this looks quite good. I reviewed patches 2-6 (skipping
1 since it's already in next), made my comments on 4, and don't have any
for the rest (besides what's below).

> I've added "--filter-ignore-missing" parameter to rev-list and
> pack-objects to ignore missing objects rather than error out.
> This allows this patch series to better stand on its own eliminates
> the need in part 1 for "patch 9" from V1.
> 
> This is a brute force ignore all missing objects.  Later, in part
> 2 or part 3 when --exclude-promisor-objects is introduced, we will
> be able to ignore EXPECTED missing objects.

(This is regarding patches 5 and 6.) Is the intention to support both
flags? (That is, --ignore-missing to ignore without checking whether the
object being missing is not unexpected, and --exclude-promisor-objects
to check and ignore.)