On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 06:13:42PM -0700, Matthew DeVore wrote: > diff --git a/builtin/prune.c b/builtin/prune.c > index 41230f8215..11284d0bf3 100644 > --- a/builtin/prune.c > +++ b/builtin/prune.c > @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ int cmd_prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > save_commit_buffer = 0; > read_replace_refs = 0; > ref_paranoia = 1; > + revs.allow_exclude_promisor_objects_opt = 1; > repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &revs, prefix); > > argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options, prune_usage, 0); I think this line is in the wrong place. The very first thing repo_init_revisions() will do is memset() the revs struct to all-zeroes, so it cannot possibly be doing anything. Normally it would need to go after init_revisions() but before setup_revisions(), but we don't seem to call the latter at all in builtin/prune.c. Which makes sense, because you cannot pass options to influence the reachability traversal. So I don't think we need to care about this flag at all here. Speaking of which, would this flag work better as a field in setup_revision_opt, which is passed to setup_revisions()? The intent seem to be to influence how we parse command-line arguments, and that's where other similar flags are (e.g., assume_dashdash). -Peff