On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:54 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Matthew DeVore <matvore@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > No code which reads cmdline in struct rev_info can handle NULL objects > > in cmdline.rev[i].item, so stop adding them to the cmdline.rev array. > > "The code is not prepared to have cmdline.rev[].item that is NULL" > is something everybody would understand and agree with, but that > does not automatically lead to "so ignoring or rejecting and dying > is OK", though. The cmdline thing is used for the commands to learn > the end-user intent that cannot be learned by the resulting objects > in the object array (e.g. the user may have said 'master' but the > pending[] (and later revs.commits) would only have the object names, > and some callers would want to know if it was a branch name, a > refname refs/heads/master, or the hexadecimal object name), so > unless absolutely needed, I'm hesitant to take a change that loses > information (e.g. the user named this object that is not locally > available, we cannot afford to add it to the pending[] and add it to > revs.commits to traverse from there, but we still want to know what > object was given by the user). Hmm, when you explain the purpose of cmdline, it's obvious now that it doesn't make sense to mechanically drop items from it. I'm sending another version of this patch which uses a more focused approach and is a bit simpler. > > > Objects in cmdline are NULL when the given object is promisor and > > --exclude-promisor-objects is enabled. > > A "promisor" is a remote repository. It promises certain objects > that you do not have are later retrievable from it. The way you can > see if the promisor promised to later give you an object is to see > if that missing object is reachable from an object in a packfile the > promisor gave you earlier. > > "The given object" is never a "promisor", so I am not sure what the > above wants to say. Is > > When an object is given on the command line and if it is missing > from the local repository, add_rev_cmdline() receives NULL in > its "item" parameter. > > what you meant? Is that the _only_ case in which "item" could be > NULL, or is it also true for any missing object due to repository > corruption? Yes, that is what I meant. I believe for corruption there is an actual error shown with die() or the like, though I am not certain.
