Re: RFC: Resumable clone based on hybrid "smart" and "dumb" HTTP

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

--strict + --check-self-contained-and-connected check that the pack
is self-contained.  In the process they mark each object that is
reachable from another object in the pack with FLAG_LINK.

The objects not marked with FLAG_LINK are the roots.

Ahh, OK, if we already have the code that does it, I have no
objection.  At some point before finalizing the pack on the disk we
would want to run fsck on all objects anyway, so having to pass
"--strict" to find objects that lack FLAG_LINK does not sound too
big a downside.

Thanks.