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[PATCH 0/4] repack: various corner cases for cruft-less MIDXs

From
Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@openai.com>
Date
Sep 30, 2026, 01:28 UTC
Message-ID
<cover.1790731662.git.me@ttaylorr.com>

This patch series fixes a few bugs I spotted while investigating the cruft-less MIDX feature.

The bugs addressed are found in various corner cases, and, when triggered, may result in a MIDX being written whose objects are not closed under reachability. When this happens while the caller is trying to write reachability bitmaps, bitmap generation may fail if one or more selected commits are descendants of the open portion of the MIDX.

The series is structured as follows:
 * The first patch is a preparatory refactoring to add a context struct
   within pack-objects' handling of '--stdin-packs' to minimize the diff
   in the subsequent patch.
 * The second patch fixes a case where once-cruft tree and annotated tag
   objects may prevent reachability closure when objects reachable from
   them are not present in the input pack(s).
 * The third patch fixes a case where incremental repack operations may
   introduce the same bug when the pack generated by an incremental
   repack does not pack an additional copy of once-cruft object(s).
 * The fourth and final patch addresses a similar case involving .keep
   packs.
Thanks in advance for reviewing!
Taylor Blau (4):
  pack-objects: introduce `stdin_packs_context` struct
  pack-objects: ensure tree/tag closure with '--stdin-packs=follow'
  repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs after incremental repacks
  repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs containing kept packs
 Documentation/git-pack-objects.adoc |  2 +
 builtin/pack-objects.c              | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 builtin/repack.c                    |  6 +++
 repack-midx.c                       |  5 ++
 t/t5331-pack-objects-stdin.sh       | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t7704-repack-cruft.sh             | 51 ++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
base-commit: a018953688f1b10bddf91bff8747068f5f4746a4
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2.56.0.4.gbee41d2fc68
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  1. 0/4 repack: various corner cases for cruft-less MIDXsTaylor Blau, Sep 30, 2026
  2. 1/4 pack-objects: introduce `stdin_packs_context` structTaylor Blau, Sep 30, 2026
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 30, 2026
  4. Taylor BlauOct 1, 2026
  5. 2/4 pack-objects: ensure tree/tag closure with '--stdin-packs=follow'Taylor Blau, Sep 30, 2026
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 30, 2026
  7. Derrick StoleeSep 30, 2026
  8. Taylor BlauOct 1, 2026
  9. Elijah NewrenOct 1, 2026
  10. Taylor BlauOct 2, 2026
  11. Jeff KingOct 2, 2026
  12. Jeff KingSep 30, 2026
  13. Taylor BlauOct 1, 2026
  14. 3/4 repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs after incremental repacksTaylor Blau, Sep 30, 2026
  15. Jeff KingSep 30, 2026
  16. Taylor BlauOct 1, 2026
  17. 4/4 repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs containing kept packsTaylor Blau, Sep 30, 2026
  18. Jeff KingSep 30, 2026
  19. Taylor BlauOct 1, 2026
  20. Jeff KingSep 30, 2026
  21. Taylor BlauOct 1, 2026
  22. 0/8 repack: various corner cases for cruft-less MIDXsTaylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  23. 1/8 pack-objects: introduce `stdin_packs_context` structTaylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  24. 2/8 pack-objects: ensure tree/tag closure with '--stdin-packs=follow'Taylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  25. Jeff KingOct 2, 2026
  26. Taylor BlauOct 3, 2026
  27. Jeff KingOct 3, 2026
  28. 3/8 repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs after incremental repacksTaylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  29. 4/8 repack: use a sorted list for explicitly kept packsTaylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  30. Jeff KingOct 2, 2026
  31. 5/8 repack: follow kept packs when omitting cruft from the MIDXTaylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  32. Jeff KingOct 2, 2026
  33. Taylor BlauOct 3, 2026
  34. 6/8 repack: track the preferred pack explicitly in MIDX write stepsTaylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  35. Jeff KingOct 2, 2026
  36. Taylor BlauOct 3, 2026
  37. Jeff KingOct 3, 2026
  38. 7/8 repack: defer allocating the append plan's write stepTaylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  39. 8/8 repack: include required packs in incremental MIDX writesTaylor Blau, Oct 1, 2026
  40. Jeff KingOct 2, 2026
  41. Taylor BlauOct 3, 2026

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