On 12/14/2017 1:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Jeff Hostetler <g...@jeffhostetler.com> writes:
+- On the client these incomplete packfiles are marked as "promisor pacfiles"
s/pacfiles/packfiles/
+ These "promisor packfiles" consist of a "<name>.promisor" file with
+ arbitrary contents (like the "<name>.keep" files), in addition to
+ their "<name>.pack" and "<name>.idx" files.
+
+ In the future, this ability may be extended to loose objects in case
+ a promisor packfile is accidentally unpacked.
Hmph.
Because we cannot assume that such an "accidental" unpacking would
do anything extra to help us tell the loose objects created out of a
promisor pack from other loose objects, you would end up making any
and all loose objects to serve as if they came from a promisor
remote? I am not sure if that makes much sense.
Do we really need to write this "in the future" down, before we have
thought things through enough to specify the design at a bit more
detailed level?
good point. i'll move this to the bottom and elaborate on the
problem rather than the solution.
Jeff
