Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That sounds like pointing at a different issue. If the test > repository downloads the blobs at the tip, then the fact that the > trace output did not have "fetch" in it does not mean much, does it? > It could be that we refrained from lazily download the blob because > we did not need its contents for the purpose of following through an > exact rename, but it could also be that we did not need to lazily > download it because we already had it. hmm, you're right. > So regardless of "--missing=print" vs "grep in trace", there was a > bug in the test set-up, and we caught it in this discussion, which > is excellent. :)