Re: [PATCH 1/2] pack-objects: break out of want_object loop early

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >> I do not mind too much about having to check two bools twice.  But
> >> given that the reason why I was confused was because I didn't see
> >> why we need to pass the two "return 0" conditions at least once
> >> before we decide that we do not need the "return 0" thing at all,
> >> and started constructing a case where this might break by writing
> >> "Suppose you have two packs, one remote and one local in packed_git
> >> list in this order, and ..." before I realized that the new "early
> >> break" can be hoisted up like the above, I definitely feel that "we
> >> found one, and we aren't conditionally pretending that this thing
> >> does not need to be packed at all, so return early and say we want
> >> to pack it" is easier to understand before the two existing "if"
> >> statements.
> >
> > Ah, right. Now you had me second-guessing for a moment that there might
> > be a bad case in hoisting it up where we would want to return 0 but
> > would break out early to the "return 1".
> >
> > But it cannot be the case, because the break is mutually exclusive with
> > the two conditions.
> 
> Here is what I amended looks like (with s/local/non-local/ in the
> log message).

> diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
> index a2f8cfd..a46bf5b 100644
> --- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
> +++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
> @@ -977,6 +977,21 @@ static int want_object_in_pack(const unsigned char *sha1,
>  				return 1;
>  			if (incremental)
>  				return 0;
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * When asked to do --local (do not include an
> +			 * object that appears in a pack we borrow
> +			 * from elsewhere) or --honor-pack-keep (do not
> +			 * include an object that appears in a pack marked
> +			 * with .keep), we need to make sure no copy of this
> +			 * object come from in _any_ pack that causes us to
> +			 * omit it, and need to complete this loop.  When
> +			 * neither option is in effect, we know the object
> +			 * we just found is going to be packed, so break
> +			 * out of the loop to return 1 now.
> +			 */
> +			if (!ignore_packed_keep && !local)
> +				break;