Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:42:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Tan <jonathanta...@google.com> writes:
>> 
>> > It could be argued that in the future, Git might need to distinguish
>> > tree_objects from blob_objects - in particular, a user might want
>> > rev-list to print the trees but not the blobs. 
>> 
>> That was exactly why these bits were originally made to "appear
>> independent but in practice nobody sets only one and leaves others
>> off".  
>> 
>> And it didn't happen in the past 10 years, which tells us that we
>> should take this patch.
>
> I actually have a patch which uses the distinction. It's for
> upload-archive doing reachability checks (which seems rather familiar to
> what's going on here).

OK.  Thanks for stopping me ;-)

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