From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570B1202A0 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2017 02:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755541AbdKQCOi (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:14:38 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:55345 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754930AbdKQCOh (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:14:37 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD7F9F3F8; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:14:36 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=QEj1/DSCJHW5hsPGZg6YyY296ck=; b=sy39z8 4KhccnnHJ7vGtLQfFoJEQ8wL72hxcx0FNrRnVh+mffvAkKCaWR8OExCGksMKHmI/ OgpmxektbGCB+UCjakXiS00jr65Y8d4jhpIVt07WT9rK3gOxhYWHZw86OFPRdW1i sZVoqrVKpfrAiROUAcUW/sD9QZO3sl+niWoeA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=mzDWlXrvwTeq9MRsKHrtFA++COqSsk/v QhcXWDX5B2vShT7cSF6j5DUhiVK2P+3ftH8Wgdqiru+s74B3r1ENoCP5AdPNEiFC 0Xcr/tgnlwKWv/2T1FcfxRN0qH5IK1Gfku1MzPODS9xGBVuCeNuhzZOZJZw3+NH8 bKCIERAf4ig= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775C99F3F7; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:14:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB6D89F3F6; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:14:35 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jonathan Tan Cc: Jeff Hostetler , git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, Jeff Hostetler Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] rev-list: add list-objects filtering support References: <20171116180743.61353-1-git@jeffhostetler.com> <20171116180743.61353-6-git@jeffhostetler.com> <20171116124354.3d800cc27dbe3ea668c64519@google.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:14:34 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20171116124354.3d800cc27dbe3ea668c64519@google.com> (Jonathan Tan's message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:43:54 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 0EC1FB4C-CB3D-11E7-958D-575F0C78B957-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jonathan Tan 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.