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Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:03:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Derrick Stolee Cc: Pablo Sabater , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Add --dry-run option to git-backfill(1) In-Reply-To: (Derrick Stolee's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:14:46 -0400") References: <20260930-backfill-dryrun-v1-0-1128f247ee01@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:03:42 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Derrick Stolee writes: > This is a helpful capability, but I'm not sure the size check counts > as a "dry run" because it involves a network call (and possibly many > depending on --min-batch-size). > ... > I'm not sure that we want to add a feature based on speculation. Git > is a collection of "itches" that the contributors needed scratched. > The work is motivated by real needs. > ... > I don't think the uncompressed size is a useful metric here, as it is > likely astronomically larger than what will be downloaded. How will > this help a user make a decision? I agree with you on all counts.