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Re: [PATCH 2/6] sha1_file: always allow relative paths to alternates

From
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date
Oct 2, 2016, 09:07 UTC
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Am 30.09.2016 um 21:36 schrieb Jeff King:
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> We adjust the test script here to demonstrate that this now
> works. Unfortunately, we can't demonstrate that the
> duplicate is suppressed, since it has no user-visible
> behavior (it's just one less place for our object lookups to
> go). But you can verify it manually via gdb, with something
> like:
> 
>     for i in a b c; do
>             git init --bare $i
>             blob=$(echo $i | git -C $i hash-object -w --stdin)
>     done
>     echo "../../b/objects" >a/objects/info/alternates
>     echo "../../c/objects" >>a/objects/info/alternates
>     echo "../../c/objects" >b/objects/info/alternates
>     gdb --args git cat-file -e $blob
> 
> After prepare_alt_odb() runs, we have only a single copy of
> "/path/to/c/objects/" in the alt_odb list.

A better way would be to provide a UI for that. We could easily bolt it to the side of count-objects like in the patch below. Feels a bit hackish, though.

Per-ODB counting would be nice, but a lot more involved, I guess (didn't try).

diff --git a/builtin/count-objects.c b/builtin/count-objects.c
index ba92919..b2afe36 100644
--- a/builtin/count-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/count-objects.c
@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ static int count_cruft(const char *basename, const char *path, void *data)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int print_alt_odb(struct alternate_object_database *alt, void *data)
+{
+	puts(alt->base);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static char const * const count_objects_usage[] = {
 	N_("git count-objects [-v] [-H | --human-readable]"),
 	NULL
@@ -81,10 +87,13 @@ static char const * const count_objects_usage[] = {
 int cmd_count_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	int human_readable = 0;
+	int list_alt_odb = 0;
 	struct option opts[] = {
 		OPT__VERBOSE(&verbose, N_("be verbose")),
 		OPT_BOOL('H', "human-readable", &human_readable,
 			 N_("print sizes in human readable format")),
+		OPT_BOOL(0, "list-alternates", &list_alt_odb,
+			 N_("print list of alternate object databases")),
 		OPT_END(),
 	};
 
@@ -92,6 +101,12 @@ int cmd_count_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	/* we do not take arguments other than flags for now */
 	if (argc)
 		usage_with_options(count_objects_usage, opts);
+
+	if (list_alt_odb) {
+		foreach_alt_odb(print_alt_odb, NULL);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	if (verbose) {
 		report_garbage = real_report_garbage;
 		report_linked_checkout_garbage();
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  2. 1/6 check_connected: accept an env argumentJeff King, Sep 30, 2016
  3. 2/6 sha1_file: always allow relative paths to alternatesJeff King, Sep 30, 2016
  4. René ScharfeOct 2, 2016
  5. Jeff KingOct 2, 2016
  6. Jeff KingOct 2, 2016
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  8. 3/6 tmp-objdir: introduce API for temporary object directoriesJeff King, Sep 30, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 30, 2016
  10. Jeff KingSep 30, 2016
  11. David TurnerSep 30, 2016
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  14. 4/6 receive-pack: quarantine objects until pre-receive acceptsJeff King, Sep 30, 2016
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  18. 5/6 tmp-objdir: put quarantine information in the environmentJeff King, Sep 30, 2016
  19. 6/6 tmp-objdir: do not migrate files starting with '.'Jeff King, Sep 30, 2016
  20. Christian CouderOct 2, 2016
  21. Jeff KingOct 2, 2016
  22. Christian CouderOct 3, 2016
  23. 0/5 receive-pack: quarantine pushed objectsJeff King, Oct 3, 2016
  24. 1/5 check_connected: accept an env argumentJeff King, Oct 3, 2016
  25. Jakub NarębskiOct 5, 2016
  26. Jeff KingOct 5, 2016
  27. 2/5 tmp-objdir: introduce API for temporary object directoriesJeff King, Oct 3, 2016
  28. 3/5 receive-pack: quarantine objects until pre-receive acceptsJeff King, Oct 3, 2016
  29. 5/5 tmp-objdir: do not migrate files starting with '.'Jeff King, Oct 3, 2016
  30. 4/5 tmp-objdir: put quarantine information in the environmentJeff King, Oct 3, 2016
  31. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2016
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