On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 10:57:51AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > ... But that leads me to > > wonder into a different direction---coalesce (tag|tree|blob)_objects > > members into a single bit, say all_objects, have "--objects" and > > friends set that single bit, and update places like these to check > > that single bit. > > Just to avoid misunderstanding, I am not saying this topic needs to > address any of this unifying of three bits. > > It is just an idea for those interested to think about, when they > have nothing better to do, when the codebase is quiescent. It does feel like going "backwards" in a sense. We have the three flags mostly split, and we'd lose that distinction. On the other hand, if the current split is imperfect, it may be leading people down a confusing path (I _think_ this "trees must be set in order to see blobs" thing is the only real gotcha, but there could be others). There's some other discussion in this old thread: https://lore.kernel.org/git/06a84f8c77924b275606384ead8bb2fd7d75f7b6.1487984670.git.jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx/ (I didn't remember it, but my spider sense tingling caused me to dig in the archive a bit). -Peff
