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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,  Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git: --no-lazy-fetch option
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Linus Arver <linusa@google.com> writes:

> Linus Arver <linusa@google.com> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> Sometimes, especially during tests of low level machinery, it is
>>> handy to have a way to disable lazy fetching of objects.  This
>>> allows us to say, for example, "git cat-file -e <object-name>", to
>>> see if the object is locally available.
>>
>> Nit: perhaps s/locally/already locally/ is better?
>
> I forgot to mention that the new flag is missing a documentation entry
> in Documentation/git.txt. Perhaps something like
>
>     --no-lazy-fetch::
>         Do not fetch missing objects. Useful together with `git cat-file -e
>         <object-name>`, for example, to see if the object is already
>         locally available.
>
> ?

Wonderful.  Thanks for an extra set of eyes.