Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] rev-list: add list-objects filtering support

[Jeff Hostetler]

On 11/16/2017 9:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jonathan Tan <jonathanta...@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.

will do.  thanks.
Jeff