Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference

2015-05-24 Thread Michael Haggerty
Thanks for working on this. I have one little bikeshedding comment... On 05/21/2015 06:14 AM, Jeff King wrote: [...] There are a few open issues with this series: 1. Assuming that seed is a reasonable verb for this concept, is --seed=repo OK for the option? Would --seed-from=repo be

Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference

2015-05-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: Yeah, I was just looking over the list archives for the past few months, for things I had marked as to read and think about later[1]. ... [1] My think about later mailbox has ~5000 messages in it, some of which are from 2010. I think I may need to just

[PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference

2015-05-20 Thread Jeff King
In a thread a few months ago[1], we discussed the idea that the --dissociate --reference=foo interface was somewhat awkward for somebody who just wants to optimize their clone. This is mostly due to the historical development of the features. The logical interface for somebody who just wants a

Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference

2015-05-20 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:01:49PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: 1. Assuming that seed is a reasonable verb for this concept, is --seed=repo OK for the option? Would --seed-from=repo be better? (Also, the response bleh, seed is a terrible name is fine, too, but only if

Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference

2015-05-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: Having just read through it, I think a succinct name for the idea is seed. That is, we seed the clone with objects from another repository. That's a nice name. That thread also brought up the idea that we do not necessarily need to seed from a local