On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 4:23 PM Matthew DeVore <matv...@google.com> wrote: > > Teach list-objects the "tree:0" filter which allows for filtering > out all tree and blob objects (unless other objects are explicitly > specified by the user). The purpose of this patch is to allow smaller > partial clones. > > The name of this filter - tree:0 - does not explicitly specify that > it also filters out all blobs, but this should not cause much confusion > because blobs are not at all useful without the trees that refer to > them. > > I also consider only:commits as a name, but this is inaccurate because > it suggests that annotated tags are omitted, but actually they are > included.
Speaking of tag objects, it is possible to tag anything, including blobs. Would a blob that is tagged (hence reachable without a tree) be not filtered by tree:0 (or in the future any deeper depth) ? I found this series a good read, despite my unfamiliarity of the partial cloning. One situation where I scratched my head for a second were previous patches that use "test_line_count = 0 rev_list_err" whereas using test_must_be_empty would be an equally good choice (I am more used to the latter than the former) Thanks, Stefan
