Jeff Hostetler <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It would be nice if we could continue to let parse_list_objects_filter() > do the syntax checking -- that is, we can still check that we received a > ulong in "blob:limit:<nr>" and that "sparse:oid:<oid>" looks like a hex > value, for example. Just save the actual <oid> lookup to the higher > layer, if and when that makes sense. Hmmm, am I misremembering things or did I hear somebody mention in this thread that people give "sparse:oid:master" (not blob object name in hex, but a refname) and expect the other side to resolve it?