Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> You can use the doc URL >> >> https://goo.gl/gh2Mzc > > I'd encourage anybody following along to follow that link. I almost > didn't, but there are a ton of comments there (I'm not sure how I feel > about splitting the discussion off the list, though). I am sure how I feel about it---we should really discourage it, unless it is an effort to help polishing an early draft for wider distribution and discussion. > I don't think we do this right now, but you can actually find the entry > (and exit) points of a pack during the index-pack step. Basically: We have code to do the "entry point" computation in index-pack already, I think, in 81a04b01 ("index-pack: --clone-bundle option", 2016-03-03). > I don't think using the "want"s as the entry points is unreasonable, > though. The server _shouldn't_ generally be sending us other cruft. That's true.