Jeff Hostetler <g...@jeffhostetler.com> writes:
> From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffh...@microsoft.com>
>
> I've been working with Jonathan Tan to combine our partial clone
> proposals. This patch series represents a first step in that effort
> and introduces an object filtering mechanism to select unwanted
> objects.
>
> [1] traverse_commit_list and list-objects is extended to allow
> various filters.
> [2] rev-list is extended to expose filtering. This allows testing
> of the filtering options. And can be used later to predict
> missing objects before commands like checkout or merge.
> [3] pack-objects is extended to use filtering parameters and build
> packfiles that omit unwanted objects.
>
> This patch series lays the ground work for subsequent parts which
> will extend clone, fetch, fetch-pack, upload-pack, fsck, and etc.
OK, thanks for working well together. So does this (1) build on
Jonathan's fsck-squelching series, or (2) ignores that and builds
filtering first, potentially leaving the codebase to a broken state
where it can create fsck-unclean repository until Jonathan's series
is rebased on top of this, or (3) something else? [*1*]
I also saw a patch marked as "this is from Jonathan's earlier work",
taking the authorship (which to me implies that the changes were
extensive enough), so I am a bit at loss envisioning how this piece
fits in the bigger picture together with the other piece.
[Footnote]
*1* Not having the answer to this question does bother me, but it is
perfectly fine if the answer is (2), especially while the series
is in a WIP state.
