Jeff Hostetler authored Nov 21, 2017 and Junio C Hamano committed Nov 22, 2017

Teach pack-objects to use the filtering provided by the
traverse_commit_list_filtered() interface to omit unwanted
objects from the resulting packfile.

Filtering requires the use of the "--stdout" option.

Add t5317 test.

In the future, we will introduce a "partial clone" mechanism
wherein an object in a repo, obtained from a remote, may
reference a missing object that can be dynamically fetched from
that remote once needed.  This "partial clone" mechanism will
have a way, sometimes slow, of determining if a missing link
is one of the links expected to be produced by this mechanism.

This patch introduces handling of missing objects to help
debugging and development of the "partial clone" mechanism,
and once the mechanism is implemented, for a power user to
perform operations that are missing-object aware without
incurring the cost of checking if a missing link is expected.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>