Jeff Hostetler <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > +- On the client these incomplete packfiles are marked as "promisor pacfiles" s/pacfiles/packfiles/ > + These "promisor packfiles" consist of a "<name>.promisor" file with > + arbitrary contents (like the "<name>.keep" files), in addition to > + their "<name>.pack" and "<name>.idx" files. > + > + In the future, this ability may be extended to loose objects in case > + a promisor packfile is accidentally unpacked. Hmph. Because we cannot assume that such an "accidental" unpacking would do anything extra to help us tell the loose objects created out of a promisor pack from other loose objects, you would end up making any and all loose objects to serve as if they came from a promisor remote? I am not sure if that makes much sense. Do we really need to write this "in the future" down, before we have thought things through enough to specify the design at a bit more detailed level?
