files_transaction_commit(): clean up empty directories

When deleting/pruning references, remove any directories that are made
empty by the deletion of loose references or of reflogs. Otherwise such
empty directories can survive forever and accumulate over time. (Even
'pack-refs', which is smart enough to remove the parent directories of
loose references that it prunes, leaves directories that were already
empty.)

And now that files_transaction_commit() takes care of deleting the
parent directories of loose references that it prunes, we don't have to
do that in prune_ref() anymore.

This change would be unwise if the *creation* of these directories could
race with our deletion of them. But the earlier changes in this patch
series made the creation paths robust against races, so now it is safe
to tidy them up more aggressively.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/refs/refs-internal.h b/refs/refs-internal.h
index dc81acc902..15d5a1e088 100644
--- a/refs/refs-internal.h
+++ b/refs/refs-internal.h
@@ -56,6 +56,12 @@
 #define REF_UPDATE_VIA_HEAD 0x100
 
 /*
+ * Used as a flag in ref_update::flags when the loose reference has
+ * been deleted.
+ */
+#define REF_DELETED_LOOSE 0x200
+
+/*
  * Return true iff refname is minimally safe. "Safe" here means that
  * deleting a loose reference by this name will not do any damage, for
  * example by causing a file that is not a reference to be deleted.
@@ -158,8 +164,9 @@ struct ref_update {
 
 	/*
 	 * One or more of REF_HAVE_NEW, REF_HAVE_OLD, REF_NODEREF,
-	 * REF_DELETING, REF_ISPRUNING, REF_LOG_ONLY, and
-	 * REF_UPDATE_VIA_HEAD:
+	 * REF_DELETING, REF_ISPRUNING, REF_LOG_ONLY,
+	 * REF_UPDATE_VIA_HEAD, REF_NEEDS_COMMIT, and
+	 * REF_DELETED_LOOSE:
 	 */
 	unsigned int flags;