On 21 Jan 2022, Julian Foad wrote:
Only for commands that need them, but, as mentioned above,
pesimistically for every file that the command *possibly*
pertains to.
I'll follow up on that.
*nod* Will look for that, thanks.
It will not fetch for 'commit' once I commit Evgeny's tiny patch
to make
it so.
Great.
The only case in which [that] might be unsatisfactory is [...]
- there is a subset of files on which the user needs to
work [...]
often enough that fetching their pristines "on demand" is a
problem;
[...]
It is not one of the cases driving this [...]
Well, that case is almost exactly our use case at my company
:-),
except that I think fetching pristines on demand will be fine.
Well, that's the crucial difference: in your case, fetching some
pristines on demand sometimes is not a problem, so this solution
works.
Yep, agreed!
Best regards,
-Karl
