> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 5:26 PM Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This is one step towards supporting partial clone submodules. > > > > Even after this patch, we will still lack partial clone submodules > > support, primarily because a lot of Git code that accesses submodule > > objects does so by adding their object stores as alternates, meaning > > that any lazy fetches that would occur in the submodule would be done > > based on the config of the superproject, not of the submodule. This also > > prevents testing of the functionality in this patch by user-facing > > commands. So for now, test this mechanism using a test helper. > > I wonder if this commit message is a good place to call out that we > also want to eventually audit codepaths using the old > has_promisor_remote() wrapper function (particularly the ones > protected by a repo == the_repository check) as well. Sounds good. I think we will need to check uses of all wrappers.
