From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net,
Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] rev-list: add list-objects filtering support
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:14:34 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd14htzw5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171116124354.3d800cc27dbe3ea668c64519@google.com> (Jonathan Tan's message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:43:54 -0800")
Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
> If it were up to me, I would remove all existing mentions of "partial
> clone" and explain the presence of the "--missing" argument as follows:
>
> In the future, we will introduce a "partial clone" mechanism wherein
> an object in a repo, obtained from a remote, may reference a missing
> object that can be dynamically fetched from that remote once needed.
> This "partial clone" mechanism will have a way, sometimes slow, of
> determining if a missing link is one of the links expected to be
> produced by this mechanism.
>
> This patch introduces handling of missing objects to help debugging
> and development of the "partial clone" mechanism, and once the
> mechanism is implemented, for a power user to perform operations
> that are missing-object-aware without incurring the cost of checking
> if a missing link is expected.
That sounds quite sensible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-17 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-16 18:07 [PATCH v4 0/6] Partial clone part 1: object filtering Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-16 18:07 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] dir: allow exclusions from blob in addition to file Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-16 18:07 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] oidmap: add oidmap iterator methods Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-16 18:07 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] oidset: add iterator methods to oidset Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-16 18:07 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] list-objects: filter objects in traverse_commit_list Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-16 20:21 ` Jonathan Tan
2017-11-16 21:49 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-16 21:57 ` Jeff King
2017-11-17 2:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-17 15:42 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-17 22:19 ` Jeff King
2017-11-16 18:07 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] rev-list: add list-objects filtering support Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-16 20:43 ` Jonathan Tan
2017-11-17 2:14 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-11-17 17:36 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-11-16 18:07 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] pack-objects: add list-objects filtering Jeff Hostetler
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