Dave Berenbaum

@jorgeorpinel I would appreciate your feedback on the flag naming here whenever you can 🙏

Nice @dtrifiro! I think the expected usage here is still a little unclear, so I'll try to clarify (cc @dmpetrov): 1. `dvc import-url --no-download foo` should generate everything in the...

> Not sure I agree about generating outputs here. In order to actually write the out's hash (`md5`), we'd have to download (stream) the data, defeating (imo) the purpose of...

Thanks @dtrifiro! > > The only hard requirements are to capture the checksums for versioning, not save to disk, and be able to pull later. > > This works already,...

Discussed with @dtrifiro that there are several options. 1. Use `dvc repro` and fail if etags don't match. However, if a user does `dvc pull`, they will get an error...

> Yes `dvc import-url = dvc import-url --no-download & dvc update` @dmpetrov I think we want `dvc import-url = dvc import-url --no-download & dvc pull`? In other words, we don't...

@dtrifiro Just tested this and it looks good! I put some comment above about naming. The only other issue is that `update --no-download` currently leaves the `outs` section intact (and...

> What is the expected behavior of `dvc commit` when a repo has partial imports? Currently it will fail because there is no output file in the workspace > >...

@efiop Is `commit` logic even needed for this PR? Since `commit` fails now, it shouldn't introduce any breaking changes if we later start making `commit` a noop.

@behrica Would you be interested in a Python API to do this? My feeling is that if you need to auto-generate all parameter combinations, you may as well call `dvc...