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[PATCH v5 5/9] builtin/receive-pack: lift global state out of unpack()

From
Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2026, 23:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20260820234940.894624-6-jltobler@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20260820234940.894624-1-jltobler@gmail.com>

In git-receive-pack(1), writing the packfile to the transaction is handled via `unpack()` which relies on global variables to decide how to invoke the underlying git-index-pack(1) or git-unpack-objects(1) child processes. In a subsequent commit, the `unpack()` logic is moved behind a generic ODB transaction interface to handle writing packfiles and thus can no longer rely on these globals.

Lift the global state out of `unpack()` by instead storing this state in a `struct unpack_opts` that gets passed to the function explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/receive-pack.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
index 971dc3f52e..f062b93b8d 100644
--- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
@@ -2330,18 +2330,24 @@ static unsigned int get_unpack_limit(struct repository *repo)
 	return limit;
 }
 
+struct unpack_opts {
+	const char *fsck_msg_types;
+	const char *shallow_file;
+	off_t max_input_size;
+	int fsck_objects;
+	int reject_thin;
+	int err_fd;
+	int quiet;
+};
+
 static const char *unpack(struct odb_transaction *transaction,
-			  const char *shallow_file, int err_fd)
+			  const struct unpack_opts *opts)
 {
 	struct pack_header hdr;
 	const char *hdr_err;
 	int status;
 	struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
-	int fsck_objects = (receive_fsck_objects >= 0
-			    ? receive_fsck_objects
-			    : transfer_fsck_objects >= 0
-			    ? transfer_fsck_objects
-			    : 0);
+	int err_fd = opts->err_fd;
 
 	hdr_err = parse_pack_header(&hdr);
 	if (hdr_err) {
@@ -2350,9 +2356,9 @@ static const char *unpack(struct odb_transaction *transaction,
 		return hdr_err;
 	}
 
-	if (shallow_file) {
+	if (opts->shallow_file) {
 		strvec_push(&child.args, "--shallow-file");
-		strvec_push(&child.args, shallow_file);
+		strvec_push(&child.args, opts->shallow_file);
 	}
 
 	odb_transaction_env(transaction, &child.env);
@@ -2360,14 +2366,14 @@ static const char *unpack(struct odb_transaction *transaction,
 	if (ntohl(hdr.hdr_entries) < get_unpack_limit(the_repository)) {
 		strvec_push(&child.args, "unpack-objects");
 		push_header_arg(&child.args, &hdr);
-		if (quiet)
+		if (opts->quiet)
 			strvec_push(&child.args, "-q");
-		if (fsck_objects)
+		if (opts->fsck_objects)
 			strvec_pushf(&child.args, "--strict%s",
-				     fsck_msg_types.buf);
-		if (max_input_size)
+				     opts->fsck_msg_types);
+		if (opts->max_input_size)
 			strvec_pushf(&child.args, "--max-input-size=%"PRIuMAX,
-				     (uintmax_t)max_input_size);
+				     (uintmax_t)opts->max_input_size);
 		child.no_stdout = 1;
 		child.err = err_fd;
 		child.git_cmd = 1;
@@ -2388,18 +2394,18 @@ static const char *unpack(struct odb_transaction *transaction,
 			     (uintmax_t)getpid(),
 			     hostname);
 
-		if (!quiet && err_fd)
+		if (!opts->quiet && err_fd)
 			strvec_push(&child.args, "--show-resolving-progress");
-		if (use_sideband)
+		if (err_fd)
 			strvec_push(&child.args, "--report-end-of-input");
-		if (fsck_objects)
+		if (opts->fsck_objects)
 			strvec_pushf(&child.args, "--strict%s",
-				     fsck_msg_types.buf);
-		if (!reject_thin)
+				     opts->fsck_msg_types);
+		if (!opts->reject_thin)
 			strvec_push(&child.args, "--fix-thin");
-		if (max_input_size)
+		if (opts->max_input_size)
 			strvec_pushf(&child.args, "--max-input-size=%"PRIuMAX,
-				     (uintmax_t)max_input_size);
+				     (uintmax_t)opts->max_input_size);
 		child.out = -1;
 		child.err = err_fd;
 		child.git_cmd = 1;
@@ -2431,11 +2437,23 @@ static const char *unpack(struct odb_transaction *transaction,
 static const char *unpack_with_sideband(struct odb_transaction *transaction,
 					const char *shallow_file)
 {
+	struct unpack_opts opts = {
+		.fsck_objects = (receive_fsck_objects >= 0
+				 ? receive_fsck_objects
+				 : transfer_fsck_objects >= 0
+				 ? transfer_fsck_objects
+				 : 0),
+		.fsck_msg_types = fsck_msg_types.buf,
+		.max_input_size = max_input_size,
+		.shallow_file = shallow_file,
+		.reject_thin = reject_thin,
+		.quiet = quiet,
+	};
 	struct async muxer;
 	const char *ret;
 
 	if (!use_sideband)
-		return unpack(transaction, shallow_file, 0);
+		return unpack(transaction, &opts);
 
 	use_keepalive = KEEPALIVE_AFTER_NUL;
 	memset(&muxer, 0, sizeof(muxer));
@@ -2444,7 +2462,8 @@ static const char *unpack_with_sideband(struct odb_transaction *transaction,
 	if (start_async(&muxer))
 		return NULL;
 
-	ret = unpack(transaction, shallow_file, muxer.in);
+	opts.err_fd = muxer.in;
+	ret = unpack(transaction, &opts);
 
 	finish_async(&muxer);
 	return ret;
-- 
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