Re: [GSoC PATCH v2 6/7] builtin/repack: add safety guards for --drop-filtered
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Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
- Date
- Aug 4, 2026, 21:13 UTC
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- <a81fc1be-914e-4045-87a0-cee88257fad5@gmail.com>
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- <20260730174153.9949-7-r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
On 30/07/26 23:11, Siddharth Shrimali wrote:
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> --drop-filtered removes local promisor blobs. That is only safe when the > repository is not mid-operation and when the blobs are not actively in > use, so add two guards, both skipped for bare repositories which have > neither a worktree nor an index. > > First, refuse to run while a merge, rebase, am, cherry-pick, revert, or > bisect is in progress. During these operations the working tree and > index are in an intermediate state, and rewriting packs and deleting > objects underneath a half-finished operation is unsafe. > > Second, refuse to drop a blob that the current index references. Such a
Index guard looks good to me. Same idea as on the RFC.
Thanks. Siddharth
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> blob is needed by the working tree, so dropping it would only cause the
> next command that touches the worktree to lazy-fetch it straight back,
> reclaiming nothing. The offending path is reported so the user can see
> why the drop was refused.
>
> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
> Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
> ---
> builtin/repack.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> t/t7706-repack-drop-filtered.sh | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 83 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/repack.c b/builtin/repack.c
> index 9a15ab1f2a..2339bcaac4 100644
> --- a/builtin/repack.c
> +++ b/builtin/repack.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
> #include "list-objects-filter-options.h"
> #include "oidset.h"
> #include "hex.h"
> +#include "wt-status.h"
> +#include "read-cache-ll.h"
>
> #define ALL_INTO_ONE 1
> #define LOOSEN_UNREACHABLE 2
> @@ -309,6 +311,28 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc,
> if (!repo_has_promisor_remote(repo))
> die(_("--drop-filtered requires a promisor remote"));
>
> + /*
> + * refuse to drop objects while another operation is in
> + * progress. the working tree and index are in an
> + * intermediate state, and rewriting packs in a half-finished
> + * merge/rebase/cherry-pick/revert/bisect is unsafe
> + * bare repositories have no such state, so the check
> + * is skipped there
> + */
> + if (!is_bare_repository(repo)) {
> + struct wt_status_state state = { 0 };
> +
> + wt_status_get_state(repo, &state, 0);
> + if (state.merge_in_progress || state.revert_in_progress ||
> + state.rebase_in_progress ||state.bisect_in_progress ||
> + state.cherry_pick_in_progress ||state.am_in_progress||
> + state.rebase_interactive_in_progress) {
> + wt_status_state_free_buffers(&state);
> + die(_("--drop-filtered cannot be used while another operation is in progress"));
> + }
> + wt_status_state_free_buffers(&state);
> + }
> +
> write_bitmaps = 0;
>
> /*
> @@ -324,6 +348,29 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc,
> if (ret)
> goto cleanup;
>
> + /*
> + * refuse to drop blobs that the current index references.
> + * dropping such a blob would cause the very next command
> + * that touches the worktree to lazy-fetch it straight back, so
> + * the drop would reclaim nothing. bare repositories have no
> + * index, so the check is skipped there.
> + */
> + if (!is_bare_repository(repo) && oidset_size(&drop_oids)) {
> + struct index_state *istate = repo->index;
> + unsigned int i;
> +
> + if (repo_read_index(repo) < 0)
> + die(_("could not read the index"));
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < istate->cache_nr; i++) {
> + const struct cache_entry *ce = istate->cache[i];
> +
> + if (oidset_contains(&drop_oids, &ce->oid))
> + die(_("cannot drop '%s' (%s): it is referenced by the current index"),
> + ce->name, oid_to_hex(&ce->oid));
> + }
> + }
> +
> if (dry_run) {
> struct oidset_iter iter;
> const struct object_id *oid;
> diff --git a/t/t7706-repack-drop-filtered.sh b/t/t7706-repack-drop-filtered.sh
> index b3e493e851..dabed97541 100755
> --- a/t/t7706-repack-drop-filtered.sh
> +++ b/t/t7706-repack-drop-filtered.sh
> @@ -140,4 +140,40 @@ test_expect_success '--drop-filtered removes the promisor blob locally' '
> grep -q "$SMALL" present
> '
>
> +test_expect_success '--drop-filtered refuses when a merge is in progress' '
> + test_when_finished "git -C repo merge --abort || :" &&
> +
> + # creat a conflicting merge so wt_status reports it
> + git -C repo checkout -B mergebase base &&
> + echo one >repo/conflict.txt &&
> + git -C repo add conflict.txt &&
> + git -C repo commit -m one &&
> +
> + git -C repo checkout -B mergeother base &&
> + echo two >repo/conflict.txt &&
> + git -C repo add conflict.txt &&
> + git -C repo commit -m two &&
> +
> + test_must_fail git -C repo merge mergebase &&
> +
> + test_must_fail git -C repo -c repack.writeBitmaps=false \
> + repack --drop-filtered --filter=blob:limit=1k --dry-run -a 2>err &&
> + test_grep "in progress" err
> +'
> +
> +
> +test_expect_success '--drop-filtered refuses to drop an index-referenced blob' '
> + # create a large blob, add it to the index and make it a promisor object
> + # so the index references it and enumeration picks it up
> + test-tool genrandom idx 4096 >repo/tracked-big.bin &&
> + git -C repo add tracked-big.bin &&
> + OID=$(git -C repo rev-parse :tracked-big.bin) &&
> + printf "%s\n" "$OID" | pack_as_from_promisor >/dev/null &&
> + delete_object repo "$OID" &&
> +
> + test_must_fail git -C repo -c repack.writeBitmaps=false \
> + repack --drop-filtered --filter=blob:limit=1k --dry-run -a 2>err &&
> + test_grep "referenced by the current index" err
> +'
> +
> test_done