Re: [PATCH v2] partial-clone: design doc

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On 12/14/2017 1:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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?


good point.  i'll move this to the bottom and elaborate on the
problem rather than the solution.

Jeff



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