Re: Add --ignore-missing to git-pack-objects?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 20, 2017, 10:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20170820101632.irj22dighcrrcvlv@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7d7a5801-1418-cc03-6d88-c148a38fccec@onlinehome.de>

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:51:01AM +0200, ch wrote:

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> Is it possible to add an option akin to git-rev-list's '--ignore-missing' to
> git-pack-objects?
> 
> I use git bundles to (incrementally) backup my repositories. My script inspects
> all bundles in the backup and passes their contained refs as excludes to
> git-pack-objects to build the pack for the new bundle. This works fine as long
> as none of these refs have been garbage-collected in the source repository.
> Something like '--ignore-missing' would be really handy here to ask
> git-pack-objects to simply ignore any of the passed revs that are not present
> (anymore).

So if I understand correctly, you are only using these for the negative side of the traversal? rev-list should ignore missing objects in such a case even without --ignore-missing, and I think it may simply be a bug if pack-objects is not.

Do you have a simple reproduction recipe?

-Peff