connected.c: reprepare packs for corner cases

While updating the microsoft/git fork on top of v2.26.0-rc0 and
consuming that build into Scalar, I noticed a corner case bug around
partial clone.

The "scalar clone" command can create a Git repository with the
proper config for using partial clone with the "blob:none" filter.
Instead of calling "git clone", it runs "git init" then sets a few
more config values before running "git fetch".

In our builds on v2.26.0-rc0, we noticed that our "git fetch"
command was failing with

  error: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar did not send all necessary objects

This does not happen if you copy the config file from a repository
created by "git clone --filter=blob:none <url>", but it does happen
when adding the config option "core.logAllRefUpdates = true".

By debugging, I was able to see that the loop inside
check_connnected() that checks if all refs are contained in
promisor packs actually did not have any packfiles in the packed_git
list.

I'm not sure what corner-case issues caused this config option to
prevent the reprepare_packed_git() from being called at the proper
spot during the fetch operation. This approach requires a situation
where we use the remote helper process, which makes it difficult to
test.

It is possible to place a reprepare_packed_git() call in the fetch code
closer to where we receive a pack, but that leaves an opening for a
later change to re-introduce this problem. Further, a concurrent repack
operation could replace the pack-file list we already loaded into
memory, causing this issue in an even harder to reproduce scenario.

It is really the responsibility of anyone looping through the list of
pack-files for a certain object to fall back to reprepare_packed_git()
on a fail-to-find. The loop in check_connected() does not have this
fallback, leading to this bug.

We _could_ try looping through the packs and only reprepare the packs
after a miss, but that change is more involved and has little value.
Since this case is isolated to the case when
opt->check_refs_are_promisor_objects_only is true, we are confident that
we are verifying the refs after downloading new data. This implies that
calling reprepare_packed_git() in advance is not a huge cost compared to
the rest of the operations already made.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/connected.c b/connected.c
index 7e9bd1bc62..ac52b07b47 100644
--- a/connected.c
+++ b/connected.c
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ int check_connected(oid_iterate_fn fn, void *cb_data,
 		 * object is a promisor object. Instead, just make sure we
 		 * received, in a promisor packfile, the objects pointed to by
 		 * each wanted ref.
+		 *
+		 * Before checking for promisor packs, be sure we have the
+		 * latest pack-files loaded into memory.
 		 */
+		reprepare_packed_git(the_repository);
 		do {
 			struct packed_git *p;