Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:42:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 That was exactly why these bits were originally made to "appear 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 ;-)