Re: [PATCH] repack: add `repack.honorpackkeep` config var

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Mar 3, 2014, 19:51 UTC

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<xmqqeh2joyc5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

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<20140303181558.GA16523@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:13:47AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > Or the flip side: if the user wants to use .keep, we should drop
>> > bitmaps. My point is that we do not know which way the user wants to
>> > go, so we should not tie the options together.
>> 
>> Hmph.  I think the short of your later explanation is "global config
>> may tell us to use bitmap, in which case we would need a way to
>> defeat that and have existing .keep honored, and it makes it easier
>> to do so if these two are kept separate, because you do not want to
>> run around and selectively disable bitmaps in these repositories.
>> We can instead do so with repack.packKeptObjects in the global
>> configuration." and I tend to agree with the reasoning.
>
> Yes. Do you need a re-roll from me? I think the last version I sent +
> the squash to tie the default to bitmap-writing makes the most sense.

Do you mean this one?

Here's the interdiff for doing the fallback:

---

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 3a3d84f..a8ddc7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -2139,7 +2139,9 @@ repack.usedeltabaseoffset::
 repack.packKeptObjects::
 	If set to true, makes `git repack` act as if
 	`--pack-kept-objects` was passed. See linkgit:git-repack[1] for
-	details. Defaults to false.
+	details. Defaults to `false` normally, but `true` if a bitmap
+	index is being written (either via `--write-bitmap-index` or
+	`pack.writeBitmaps`).
 
 rerere.autoupdate::
 	When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the
diff --git a/builtin/repack.c b/builtin/repack.c
index 49947b2..6b0b62d 100644
--- a/builtin/repack.c
+++ b/builtin/repack.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #include "argv-array.h"
 
 static int delta_base_offset = 1;
-static int pack_kept_objects;
+static int pack_kept_objects = -1;
 static char *packdir, *packtmp;
 
 static const char *const git_repack_usage[] = {
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_repack_options,
 				git_repack_usage, 0);
 
+	if (pack_kept_objects < 0)
+		pack_kept_objects = write_bitmap;
+
 	packdir = mkpathdup("%s/pack", get_object_directory());
 	packtmp = mkpathdup("%s/.tmp-%d-pack", packdir, (int)getpid());
 
diff --git a/t/t7700-repack.sh b/t/t7700-repack.sh
index f8431a8..b1eed5c 100755
--- a/t/t7700-repack.sh
+++ b/t/t7700-repack.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ test_expect_success 'objects in packs marked .keep are not repacked' '
 	objsha1=$(git verify-pack -v pack-$packsha1.idx | head -n 1 |
 		sed -e "s/^\([0-9a-f]\{40\}\).*/\1/") &&
 	mv pack-* .git/objects/pack/ &&
-	git repack -A -d -l &&
+	git repack --no-pack-kept-objects -A -d -l &&
 	git prune-packed &&
 	for p in .git/objects/pack/*.idx; do
 		idx=$(basename $p)
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ test_expect_success 'objects in packs marked .keep are not repacked' '
 	test -z "$found_duplicate_object"
 '
 
-test_expect_success '--pack-kept-objects duplicates objects' '
+test_expect_success 'writing bitmaps duplicates .keep objects' '
 	# build on $objsha1, $packsha1, and .keep state from previous
-	git repack -Adl --pack-kept-objects &&
+	git repack -Adl &&
 	test_when_finished "found_duplicate_object=" &&
 	for p in .git/objects/pack/*.idx; do
 		idx=$(basename $p)