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author | Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> | 2023-04-14 09:02:12 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-04-14 20:27:52 +0300 |
commit | d85cd1877777aa92c73868b9e86516d4be04b4a0 (patch) | |
tree | e24afebd53410563857c93b10634a5f80c0689e3 /merge-blobs.c | |
parent | 932c16c04b5e41ee1c76d5640ec3ae67e1900c07 (diff) |
repack: disable writing bitmaps when doing a local repack
In order to write a bitmap, we need to have full coverage of all objects
that are about to be packed. In the traditional non-multi-pack-index
world this meant we need to do a full repack of all objects into a
single packfile. But in the new multi-pack-index world we can get away
with writing bitmaps when we have multiple packfiles as long as the
multi-pack-index covers all objects.
This is not always the case though. When asked to perform a repack of
local objects, only, then we cannot guarantee to have full coverage of
all objects regardless of whether we do a full repack or a repack with a
multi-pack-index. The end result is that writing the bitmap will fail in
both worlds:
$ git multi-pack-index write --stdin-packs --bitmap <packfiles
warning: Failed to write bitmap index. Packfile doesn't have full closure (object 1529341d78cf45377407369acb0f4ff2b5cdae42 is missing)
error: could not write multi-pack bitmap
Now there are two different ways to fix this. The first one would be to
amend git-multi-pack-index(1) to disable writing bitmaps when we notice
that we don't have full object coverage.
- We don't have enough information in git-multi-pack-index(1) in
order to tell whether the local repository _should_ have full
coverage. Because even when connected to an alternate object
directory, it may be the case that we still have all objects
around in the main object database.
- git-multi-pack-index(1) is quite a low-level tool. Automatically
disabling functionality that it was asked to provide does not feel
like the right thing to do.
We can easily fix it at a higher level in git-repack(1) though. When
asked to only include local objects via `-l` and when connected to an
alternate object directory then we will override the user's ask and
disable writing bitmaps with a warning. This is similar to what we do in
git-pack-objects(1), where we also disable writing bitmaps in case we
omit an object from the pack.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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