On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:58:16 -0400
Ben Peart <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> This is meant as a temporary measure to ensure that all Git commands
> >> work in such a situation. Future patches will update some commands to
> >> either tolerate promised objects (without invoking the hook) or be more
> >> efficient in invoking the promised objects hook.
>
> I agree that making git more tolerant of promised objects if possible
> and precomputing a list of promised objects required to complete a
> particular command and downloading them with a single request are good
> optimizations to add over time.
That's good to know!
> has_sha1_file also takes a hash "whether local or in an alternate object
> database, and whether packed or loose" but never calls
> sha1_object_info_extended. As a result, we had to add support in
> check_and_freshen to download missing objects to get proper behavior in
> all cases. I don't think this will work correctly without it.
Thanks for the attention to detail. Is this before or after commit
e83e71c ("sha1_file: refactor has_sha1_file_with_flags", 2017-06-26)?
