During `git repack -a -d` only repack objects which are loose or
which reside in an active (a non-kept) pack. This allows the user
to keep large packs as-is without continuous repacking and can be
very helpful on large repositories. It should also help us resolve
a race condition between `git repack -a -d` and the new pack store
functionality in `git-receive-pack`.
Kept packs are those which have a corresponding .keep file in
$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/pack. That is pack-X.pack will be kept
(not repacked and not deleted) if pack-X.keep exists in the same
directory when `git repack -a -d` starts.
Currently this feature is not documented and there is no user
interface to keep an existing pack.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* np/pack:
add the capability for index-pack to read from a stream
index-pack: compare only the first 20-bytes of the key.
git-repack: repo.usedeltabaseoffset
pack-objects: document --delta-base-offset option
allow delta data reuse even if base object is a preferred base
zap a debug remnant
let the GIT native protocol use offsets to delta base when possible
make pack data reuse compatible with both delta types
make git-pack-objects able to create deltas with offset to base
teach git-index-pack about deltas with offset to base
teach git-unpack-objects about deltas with offset to base
introduce delta objects with offset to base
When configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` is set
for the repository, the command passes `--delta-base-offset`
option to `git-pack-objects`; this typically results in slightly
smaller packs, but the generated packs are incompatible with
versions of git older than (and including) v1.4.3.
We will make it default to true sometime in the future, but not
for a while.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now that we explicitly create all tmpfiles below $GIT_DIR, there's no reason
to care about which directory we're in.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Avoid failing when cwd is !writable by writing the
packfiles in $GIT_DIR, which is more in line with other commands.
Without this, git-repack was failing when run from crontab
by non-root user accounts. For large repositories, this
also makes the mv operation a lot cheaper, and avoids leaving
temp packfiles around the fs upon failure.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This fixes the following warning:
git-repack: line 42: cd: .git/objects/pack: No such file or directory
This happens only, when git-repack -a is run without any packs in the
repository.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <matthias@spinlock.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We are trying to catch error condition of git-rev-list and cause
the downstream pack-objects to barf, but if you run rev-list
with anything that mucks with its stderr (such as GIT_TRACE),
any stderr output would cause the pipeline to fail.
[jc: originally from Matthias Lederhofer, with a reworded error message.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
After a clone, packfiles are read-only by default and "mv" to
replace the pack with a new one goes interactive, asking if the
user wants to replace it. If one is successfully moved and the
other is not, the pack and its idx would become out-of-sync and
corrupts the repository.
Recovering is straightforward -- it is just the matter of
finding the remaining .tmp-pack-* and make sure they are both
moved -- but we should be extra careful not to do something so
alarming to the users.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-repack was passing the -q along to pack-objects but ignoring it
itself. Correct the oversight.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* fix:
repack: honor -d even when no new pack was created
clone: keep --reference even with -l -s
repo-config: document what value_regexp does a bit more clearly.
Release config lock if the regex is invalid
core-tutorial.txt: escape asterisk
If all objects are reachable via an alternate object store then we
still have to remove all obsolete local packs.
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
.. but don't even bother documenting it. I don't think any normal person
is supposed to ever really care, but it simplifies testing when you want
to use the "git repack" wrapper rather than forcing you to use the core
programs (which already do support the window/depth arguments, of course).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Use git-rev-list's --all instead of git-rev-parse's to keep from
hitting the shell's argument list length limits when repacking
with lots of tags.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A new flag -q makes underlying pack-objects less chatty.
A new flag -f forces delta to be recomputed from scratch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now all the users of this script detect its exit status and die,
complaining that it is outside git repository. So move the code
that dies from all callers to git-sh-setup script.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In a corrupt repository, git-repack produces a pack that does not
contain needed objects without complaining, and the result of this
combined with -d flag can be very painful -- e.g. a lossage of one
tree object can lead to lossage of blobs reachable only through that
tree.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With "-a", redundant pack removal is trivial, and otherwise
redundant pack removal is pointless; do not call
git-redundant-pack from this script.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
No point in running git-pack-redundant if we already know
which packs are redundant.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch changes git-pack-redundant so that packfiles
in alternate object directories also are considered when
deciding which objects are redundant.
This functionality is controlled by the flag '--alt-odb'.
Also convert the other flags to the long form, and update
docs and git-repack accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch renames git-pack-intersect to git-pack-redundant
as suggested by Petr Baudis. The new name reflects what the
program does, rather than how it does it.
Also fix a small argument parsing bug.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git philosophy when it comes to disk accesses is "Laugh in the face of
danger".
Notably, since we never modify an existing object, we don't really care
that deeply about flushing things to disk, since even if the machine
crashes in the middle of a git operation, you can never really have lost
any old work. At most, you'd need to figure out the proper heads (which
git-fsck-objects can do for you) and re-do the operation.
However, there's two exceptions to this: pruning and repacking. Those
operations will actually _delete_ old objects that they know about in
other ways (ie that they just repacked, or that they have found in other
places).
However, since they actually modify old state, we should thus be a bit
more careful about them. If the machine crashes and the duplicate new
objects haven't been flushed to disk, you can actually be in trouble.
This is trivially stupid about it by calling "sync" before removing the
objects. Not very smart, but we're talking about special operations than
are usually done once a week if that.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This uses the new "--local" flag to git-pack-objects. It currently only
makes a difference together with "-a", since a normal incremental repack
won't pack any packed objects at all (whether local or remote).
Eventually, it might end up skipping any objects that aren't local to
the current object directory, but for now it only knows to skip packed
objects.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Using "git repack -a -d" can destroy your git archive if you use it
twice in succession, because the new pack can be called the same as
the old pack. Found by Linus.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
