[GSoC PATCH] backfill: auto-detect sparse-checkout from config
- From
Trieu Huynh <vikingtc4@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 31, 2026, 11:25 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20260331112516.772635-1-vikingtc4@gmail.com>
git backfill currently initializes the `sparse` field in backfill_context to 0. This causes the command to always perform a full backfill by default, even when the repository has sparse-checkout enabled in its configuration (core.sparseCheckout).
Because 'sparse' is explicitly set to 0 at initialization, any later logic intended to auto-detect the setting from the repository configuration becomes dead code, as it only triggers if the value is negative (sentinel).
Change the initial value of .sparse to -1. This allows the command to correctly fallback to the repository's sparse-checkout settings when the '--sparse' or '--no-sparse' options are not provided on the command line.
Add a test case in t5620-backfill.sh to verify that 'git backfill' automatically respects the sparse-checkout configuration without explicit flags.
Signed-off-by: Trieu Huynh <vikingtc4@gmail.com> --- builtin/backfill.c | 2 +- t/t5620-backfill.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/backfill.c b/builtin/backfill.c index 4b2db94173..0f31844ce7 100644 --- a/builtin/backfill.c +++ b/builtin/backfill.c @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ int cmd_backfill(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, struct reposit .repo = repo, .current_batch = OID_ARRAY_INIT, .min_batch_size = 50000, - .sparse = 0, + .sparse = -1, .show_progress = -1, }; struct option options[] = { diff --git a/t/t5620-backfill.sh b/t/t5620-backfill.sh index 91b5115732..a1a8d736db 100755 --- a/t/t5620-backfill.sh +++ b/t/t5620-backfill.sh @@ -149,6 +149,21 @@ test_expect_success 'backfill --sparse' ' test_line_count = 0 missing ' +test_expect_success 'backfill auto-detects sparse-checkout from config' ' + git clone --sparse --filter=blob:none \ + --single-branch --branch=main \ + "file://$(pwd)/srv.bare" backfill-auto-sparse && + + git -C backfill-auto-sparse rev-list --quiet --objects --missing=print HEAD >missing && + test_line_count = 44 missing && + + GIT_TRACE2_EVENT="$(pwd)/auto-sparse-trace" git \ + -C backfill-auto-sparse backfill && + + test_trace2_data promisor fetch_count 4 <auto-sparse-trace && + test_trace2_data path-walk paths 5 <auto-sparse-trace +' + test_expect_success 'backfill --sparse without cone mode (positive)' ' git clone --no-checkout --filter=blob:none \ --single-branch --branch=main \
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