On 11/16/2017 9:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
