Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > When cloning a repository with a tagged blob (like the Git repository) > with --filter=blob:none, the following message appears: > > error: missing object referenced by 'refs/tags/junio-gpg-pub' > > and the resulting repository also fails fsck. > > Patch 1 fixes the protocol documentation and the server side of Git, and > patch 2 makes clone error out when such a situation occurs. > > An argument could be made that we should not merge patch 2 just yet due > to the fact that some server implementations (such as Git and JGit) > still exhibit the old behavior, and the resulting clones (albeit failing > fsck) are still usable, because when attempting to load the blob, Git > will automatically fetch it. I'm on the fence about this, and have > included patch 2 in this patch set nevertheless for completeness. I think the latter is probably a good thing to nudge the server implementations in the right direction by gently poking them ;-) The patches textually apply cleanly on 'master' but apparently it needs some fixes in jt/partial-clone-fsck-connectivity topic to function correctly?
