Re: [PATCH 00/18] Partial clone (from clone to lazy fetch in 18 patches)

Hi Jonathan,

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, Jonathan Tan wrote:

Jeff Hostetler has sent out some object-filtering patches [1] that is a
superset of the object-filtering functionality that I have (in the
pack-objects patches). I have gone for the minimal approach here, but if
his patches are merged, I'll update my patch set to use those.

I wish there was a way for you to work *with* Jeff on this. It seems that
your aims are similar enough for that (you both need changes in the
protocol) yet different enough to allow for talking past each other (big
blobs vs narrow clone).

And I get the impression that in this instance, it slows everything down
to build competing, large patch series rather than building on top of each
other's work.

Additionally, I am not helping by pestering Jeff all the time about
different issues, so it is partially my fault.

But maybe there is a chance to *really* go for a minimal approach, as in
"incremental enough that you can share the first <N> patches"? And even
better: "come up with those first <N> patches together"?

Ciao,
Dscho