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repack: respect kept objects with '--write-midx -b'
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Historically, we needed a single packfile in order to have reachability
bitmaps. This introduced logic that when 'git repack' had a '-b' option
that we should stop sending the '--honor-pack-keep' option to the 'git
pack-objects' child process, ensuring that we create a packfile
containing all reachable objects.

In the world of multi-pack-index bitmaps, we no longer need to repack
all objects into a single pack to have valid bitmaps. Thus, we should
continue sending the '--honor-pack-keep' flag to 'git pack-objects'.

The fix is very simple: only disable the flag when writing bitmaps but
also _not_ writing the multi-pack-index.

This opens the door to new repacking strategies that might want to keep
some historical set of objects in a stable pack-file while only
repacking more recent objects.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
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derrickstolee committed Dec 17, 2021
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion builtin/repack.c
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Expand Up @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
write_bitmaps = 0;
}
if (pack_kept_objects < 0)
pack_kept_objects = write_bitmaps > 0;
pack_kept_objects = write_bitmaps > 0 && !write_midx;

if (write_bitmaps && !(pack_everything & ALL_INTO_ONE) && !write_midx)
die(_(incremental_bitmap_conflict_error));
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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions t/t7700-repack.sh
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Expand Up @@ -372,4 +372,19 @@ test_expect_success '--write-midx with preferred bitmap tips' '
)
'

test_expect_success '--write-midx -b packs non-kept objects' '
git init midx-kept &&
test_when_finished "rm -fr midx-kept" &&
(
cd midx-kept &&
test_commit_bulk 100 &&
GIT_TRACE2_EVENT="$(pwd)/trace.txt" \
git repack --write-midx -a -b &&
cat trace.txt | \
grep \"event\":\"start\" | \
grep pack-objects | \
grep \"--honor-pack-keep\"
)
'

test_done

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