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Junio C Hamano
82527cf33e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  fix index-pack with packs >4GB containing deltas on 32-bit machines
  git-hash-object should honor config variables
  gitweb: correct month in date display for atom feeds
2007-11-11 15:00:05 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
a91ef6e75b fix index-pack with packs >4GB containing deltas on 32-bit machines
This probably hasn't been properly tested before.  Here's a script to
create a 8GB repo with the necessary characteristics (copy the
test-genrandom executable from the Git build tree to /tmp first):

-----
#!/bin/bash

git init
git config core.compression 0

# create big objects with no deltas
for i in $(seq -w 1 2 63)
do
	echo $i
	/tmp/test-genrandom $i 268435456 > file_$i
	git add file_$i
	rm file_$i
	echo "file_$i -delta" >> .gitattributes
done

# create "deltifiable" objects in between big objects
for i in $(seq -w 2 2 64)
do
	echo "$i $i $i" >> grow
	cp grow file_$i
	git add file_$i
	rm file_$i
done
rm grow

# create a pack with them
git commit -q -m "commit of big objects interlaced with small deltas"
git repack -a -d
-----

Then clone this repo over the Git protocol.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 02:57:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e091653951 Merge branch 'np/pack'
* np/pack:
  pack-objects: get rid of an ugly cast
  make the pack index version configurable

Conflicts:

	builtin-pack-objects.c
2007-11-04 01:11:17 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
4d00bda2aa make the pack index version configurable
It is a good idea to use pack index version 2 all the time since it has
proper protection against propagation of certain pack corruptions when
repacking which is not possible with index version 1, as demonstrated
in test t5302.

Hence this config option.

The default is still pack index version 1.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-02 01:32:02 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
29e63ed3f6 add throughput display to index-pack
... and call it "Receiving objects" when over stdin to look clearer
to end users.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-30 16:08:40 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
4d4fcc5451 relax usage of the progress API
Since it is now OK to pass a null pointer to display_progress() and
stop_progress() resulting in a no-op, then we can simplify the code
and remove a bunch of lines by not making those calls conditional all
the time.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-30 16:08:40 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
dc6a0757c4 make struct progress an opaque type
This allows for better management of progress "object" existence,
as well as making the progress display implementation more independent
from its callers.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-30 16:08:40 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
c85228ed8f fix for more minor memory leaks
Now that some pointers have lost their const attribute, we can free their
associated memory when done with them.  This is more a correctness issue
about the rule for freeing those pointers which isn't completely trivial
more than the leak itself which didn't matter as the program is
exiting anyway.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-17 02:54:57 -04:00
Nicolas Pitre
4049b9cfc0 fix const issues with some functions
Two functions, namely write_idx_file() and open_pack_file(), currently
return a const pointer.  However that pointer is either a copy of the
first argument, or set to a malloc'd buffer when that first argument
is null.  In the later case it is wrong to qualify that pointer as const
since ownership of the buffer is transferred to the caller to dispose of,
and obviously the free() function is not meant to be passed const
pointers.

Making the return pointer not const causes a warning when the first
argument is returned since that argument is also marked const.

The correct thing to do is therefore to remove the const qualifiers,
avoiding the need for ugly casts only to silence some warnings.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-17 02:54:57 -04:00
Nicolas Pitre
42e18fbf5f more compact progress display
Each progress can be on a single line instead of two.

[sp: Changed "Checking files out" to "Checking out files" at
     Johannes Sixt's suggestion as it better explains the
	 action that is taking place]

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-17 02:54:55 -04:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
7647b17f1d Use xmkstemp() instead of mkstemp()
xmkstemp() performs error checking and prints a standard error message when
an error occur.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-14 22:20:26 -07:00
Jim Meyering
91c8d5905c detect close failure on just-written file handles
I audited git for potential undetected write failures.
In the cases fixed below, the diagnostics I add mimic the diagnostics
used in surrounding code, even when that means not reporting
the precise strerror(errno) cause of the error.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-26 21:48:53 -07:00
Geert Bosch
aa7e44bf57 Unify write_index_file functions
This patch unifies the write_index_file functions in
builtin-pack-objects.c and index-pack.c.  As the name
"index" is overloaded in git, move in the direction of
using "idx" and "pack idx" when refering to the pack index.
There should be no change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Geert Bosch <bosch@gnat.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-06-02 13:14:18 -07:00
Johan Herland
8a912bcb25 Ensure return value from xread() is always stored into an ssize_t
This patch fixes all calls to xread() where the return value is not
stored into an ssize_t. The patch should not have any effect whatsoever,
other than putting better/more appropriate type names on variables.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-15 21:16:03 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
cbc6bdab08 Reuse fixup_pack_header_footer in index-pack
Now that fast-import is using a "library function" to handle
correcting its packfile's object count and trailing SHA-1 we
should reuse the same function in index-pack, to reduce the
size of the code we must maintain.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-05-02 13:24:21 -04:00
Nicolas Pitre
13aaf14825 make progress "title" part of the common progress interface
If the progress bar ends up in a box, better provide a title for it too.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-22 22:18:05 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
96a02f8f6d common progress display support
Instead of having this code duplicated in multiple places, let's have
a common interface for progress display.  If someday someone wishes to
display a cheezy progress bar instead then only one file will have to
be changed.

Note: I left merge-recursive.c out since it has a strange notion of
progress as it apparently increase the expected total number as it goes.
Someone with more intimate knowledge of what that is supposed to mean
might look at converting it to the common progress interface.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-22 22:18:05 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
4ba7d71153 allow forcing index v2 and 64-bit offset treshold
This is necessary for testing the new capabilities in some automated
way without having an actual 4GB+ pack.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-10 12:48:14 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
d1a46a9eab index-pack: learn about pack index version 2
Like previous patch but for index-pack.

[ There is quite some code duplication between pack-objects and index-pack
  for generating a pack index (and fast-import as well I suppose).  This
  should be reworked into a common function eventually. But not now. ]

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-10 12:48:14 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
ee5743ce19 compute object CRC32 with index-pack
Same as previous patch but for index-pack.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-10 12:48:14 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
d7dd02231f add overflow tests on pack offset variables
Change a few size and offset variables to more appropriate type, then
add overflow tests on those offsets.  This prevents any bad data to be
generated/processed if off_t happens to not be large enough to handle
some big packs.

Better be safe than sorry.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-10 12:48:14 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
8723f21626 make overflow test on delta base offset work regardless of variable size
This patch introduces the MSB() macro to obtain the desired number of
most significant bits from a given variable independently of the variable
type.

It is then used to better implement the overflow test on the OBJ_OFS_DELTA
base offset variable with the property of always working correctly
regardless of the type/size of that variable.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-10 12:48:14 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
bbf4b41baf Plug memory leak in index-pack collision checking codepath. 2007-04-03 19:04:56 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
0e55181f29 make it more obvious that temporary files are temporary files
When some operations are interrupted (or "die()'d" or crashed) then the
partial object/pack/index file may remain around.  Make it more obvious
in their name that those files are temporary stuff and can be cleaned up
if no operation is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-24 22:32:39 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
9096c660a8 index-pack: more validation checks and cleanups
When appending objects to a pack, make sure the appended data is really
what we expect instead of simply loading potentially corrupted objects
and legitimating them by computing a SHA1 of that corrupt data.

With this the sha1_object() can lose its test_for_collision parameter
which is now redundent.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-20 22:09:59 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
ce9fbf16e0 index-pack: use hash_sha1_file()
Use hash_sha1_file() instead of duplicating code to compute object SHA1.
While at it make it accept a const pointer.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-20 22:09:57 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
8685da4256 don't ever allow SHA1 collisions to exist by fetching a pack
Waaaaaaay back Git was considered to be secure as it never overwrote
an object it already had.  This was ensured by always unpacking the
packfile received over the network (both in fetch and receive-pack)
and our already existing logic to not create a loose object for an
object we already have.

Lately however we keep "large-ish" packfiles on both fetch and push
by running them through index-pack instead of unpack-objects.  This
would let an attacker perform a birthday attack.

How?  Assume the attacker knows a SHA-1 that has two different
data streams.  He knows the client is likely to have the "good"
one.  So he sends the "evil" variant to the other end as part of
a "large-ish" packfile.  The recipient keeps that packfile, and
indexes it.  Now since this is a birthday attack there is a SHA-1
collision; two objects exist in the repository with the same SHA-1.
They have *very* different data streams.  One of them is "evil".

Currently the poor recipient cannot tell the two objects apart,
short of by examining the timestamp of the packfiles.  But lets
say the recipient repacks before he realizes he's been attacked.
We may wind up packing the "evil" version of the object, and deleting
the "good" one.  This is made *even more likely* by Junio's recent
rearrange_packed_git patch (b867092f).

It is extremely unlikely for a SHA1 collisions to occur, but if it
ever happens with a remote (hence untrusted) object we simply must
not let the fetch succeed.

Normally received packs should not contain objects we already have.
But when they do we must ensure duplicated objects with the same SHA1
actually contain the same data.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-20 22:08:25 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
3a55602eec General const correctness fixes
We shouldn't attempt to assign constant strings into char*, as the
string is not writable at runtime.  Likewise we should always be
treating unsigned values as unsigned values, not as signed values.

Most of these are very straightforward.  The only exception is the
(unnecessary) xstrdup/free in builtin-branch.c for the detached
head case.  Since this is a user-level interactive type program
and that particular code path is executed no more than once, I feel
that the extra xstrdup call is well worth the easy elimination of
this warning.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-07 10:47:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
77b50ab009 Merge branch 'js/bundle'
* js/bundle:
  bundle: reword missing prerequisite error message
  git-bundle: record commit summary in the prerequisite data
  git-bundle: fix 'create --all'
  git-bundle: avoid fork() in verify_bundle()
  git-bundle: assorted fixes
  Add git-bundle: move objects and references by archive
2007-02-28 14:38:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
597388f6a1 Merge branch 'np/types'
* np/types:
  Cleanup check_valid in commit-tree.
  make sure enum object_type is signed
  get rid of lookup_object_type()
  convert object type handling from a string to a number
  formalize typename(), and add its reverse type_from_string()
  sha1_file.c: don't ignore an error condition in sha1_loose_object_info()
  sha1_file.c: cleanup "offset" usage
  sha1_file.c: cleanup hdr usage
2007-02-28 11:58:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c4f8f82755 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  builtin-fmt-merge-msg: fix bugs in --file option
  index-pack: Loop over pread until data loading is complete.
  blameview: Fix the browse behavior in blameview
  Fix minor typos/grammar in user-manual.txt
  Correct ordering in git-cvsimport's option documentation
  git-show: Reject native ref
  Fix git-show man page formatting in the EXAMPLES section
2007-02-27 22:15:42 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
a91d49cd36 index-pack: Loop over pread until data loading is complete.
A filesystem might not be able to completely supply our pread
request in one system call, such as if we are reading data from a
network file system and the requested length is just simply huge.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-27 21:58:46 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
21666f1aae convert object type handling from a string to a number
We currently have two parallel notation for dealing with object types
in the code: a string and a numerical value.  One of them is obviously
redundent, and the most used one requires more stack space and a bunch
of strcmp() all over the place.

This is an initial step for the removal of the version using a char array
found in object reading code paths.  The patch is unfortunately large but
there is no sane way to split it in smaller parts without breaking the
system.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-27 01:34:21 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
df8436622f formalize typename(), and add its reverse type_from_string()
Sometime typename() is used, sometimes type_names[] is accessed directly.
Let's enforce typename() all the time which allows for validating the
type.

Also let's add a function to go from a name to a type and use it instead
of manual memcpy() when appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-27 01:34:21 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
fa257b0554 git-bundle: assorted fixes
This patch fixes issues mentioned by Junio, Nico and Simon:

- I forgot to convert the usage string when removing the "--" from
  the subcommands,
- a style fix in the bundle_header,
- use xread() instead of read(),
- use write_or_die() instead of write(),
- make the bundle header extensible,
- fail if the whitespace after a sha1 of a reference is missing,
- close() the fds passed to a subprocess,
- in verify_bundle(), do not use "rev-list --stdin", but rather
  pass the revs directly (avoiding a fork()),
- fix a corrupted comment in show_object(), and
- fix the size check in index_pack.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-22 22:30:33 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
2e0afafebd Add git-bundle: move objects and references by archive
Some workflows require use of repositories on machines that cannot be
connected, preventing use of git-fetch / git-push to transport objects and
references between the repositories.

git-bundle provides an alternate transport mechanism, effectively allowing
git-fetch and git-pull to operate using sneakernet transport. `git-bundle
create` allows the user to create a bundle containing one or more branches
or tags, but with specified basis assumed to exist on the target
repository. At the receiving end, git-bundle acts like git-fetch-pack,
allowing the user to invoke git-fetch or git-pull using the bundle file as
the URL. git-fetch and git-ls-remote determine they have a bundle URL by
checking that the URL points to a file, but are otherwise unchanged in
operation with bundles.

The original patch was done by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>.

It was updated to make git-bundle a builtin, and get rid of the tar
format: now, the first line is supposed to say "# v2 git bundle", the next
lines either contain a prerequisite ("-" followed by the hash of the
needed commit), or a ref (the hash of a commit, followed by the name of
the ref), and finally the pack. As a result, the bundle argument can be
"-" now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-22 22:30:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cc44c7655f Mechanical conversion to use prefixcmp()
This mechanically converts strncmp() to use prefixcmp(), but only when
the parameters match specific patterns, so that they can be verified
easily.  Leftover from this will be fixed in a separate step, including
idiotic conversions like

    if (!strncmp("foo", arg, 3))

  =>

    if (!(-prefixcmp(arg, "foo")))

This was done by using this script in px.perl

   #!/usr/bin/perl -i.bak -p
   if (/strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)/ && (length($2) == $3)) {
           s|strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)|prefixcmp($1, "$2")|;
   }
   if (/strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)/ && (length($1) == $3)) {
           s|strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)|(-prefixcmp($2, "$1"))|;
   }

and running:

   $ git grep -l strncmp -- '*.c' | xargs perl px.perl

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-20 22:03:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d1b2ddc863 index-pack: write-or-die instead of unchecked write-in-full.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-11 13:19:31 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
93822c2239 short i/o: fix calls to write to use xwrite or write_in_full
We have a number of badly checked write() calls.  Often we are
expecting write() to write exactly the size we requested or fail,
this fails to handle interrupts or short writes.  Switch to using
the new write_in_full().  Otherwise we at a minimum need to check
for EINTR and EAGAIN, where this is appropriate use xwrite().

Note, the changes to config handling are much larger and handled
in the next patch in the sequence.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-08 15:44:47 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
93d26e4cb9 short i/o: fix calls to read to use xread or read_in_full
We have a number of badly checked read() calls.  Often we are
expecting read() to read exactly the size we requested or fail, this
fails to handle interrupts or short reads.  Add a read_in_full()
providing those semantics.  Otherwise we at a minimum need to check
for EINTR and EAGAIN, where this is appropriate use xread().

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-08 15:44:47 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
08a19d873c clarify some error messages wrt unknown object types
If ever new object types are added for future extensions then better
have current git version report them as "unknown" instead of
"corrupted".

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-20 10:46:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
85023577a8 simplify inclusion of system header files.
This is a mechanical clean-up of the way *.c files include
system header files.

 (1) sources under compat/, platform sha-1 implementations, and
     xdelta code are exempt from the following rules;

 (2) the first #include must be "git-compat-util.h" or one of
     our own header file that includes it first (e.g. config.h,
     builtin.h, pkt-line.h);

 (3) system headers that are included in "git-compat-util.h"
     need not be included in individual C source files.

 (4) "git-compat-util.h" does not have to include subsystem
     specific header files (e.g. expat.h).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-20 09:51:35 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
6d2fa7f1b4 index-pack usage of mmap() is unacceptably slower on many OSes other than Linux
It was reported by Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> that
indexing the Linux repository ~150MB pack takes about an hour on OS x
while it's a minute on Linux.  It seems that the OS X mmap()
implementation is more than 2 orders of magnitude slower than the Linux
one.

Linus proposed a patch replacing mmap() with pread() bringing index-pack
performance on OS X in line with the Linux one.  The performances on
Linux also improved by a small margin.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-20 00:42:10 -08:00
Jim Meyering
554a2636f7 Don't use memcpy when source and dest. buffers may overlap
git-index-pack can call memcpy with overlapping source and destination
buffers.  The patch below makes it use memmove instead.

If you want to demonstrate a failure, add the following two lines

+               if (input_offset < input_len)
+                 abort ();

before the existing memcpy call (shown in the patch below),
and then run this:

  (cd t; sh ./t5500-fetch-pack.sh)

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-11 14:04:43 -08:00
Rene Scharfe
a6e8a76770 sparse fix: non-ANSI function declaration
The declaration of discard_cache() in cache.h already has its "void".

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-18 11:40:00 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
576162a45f remove .keep pack lock files when done with refs update
This makes both git-fetch and git-push (fetch-pack and receive-pack)
safe against a possible race with aparallel git-repack -a -d that could
prune the new pack while it is not yet referenced, and remove the .keep
file after refs have been updated.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-03 00:24:07 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
9ca4a201ea have index-pack create .keep file more carefully
If by chance we receive a pack which content (list of objects) matches
another pack that we already have, and if that pack is marked with a
.keep file, then we should not overwrite it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-03 00:24:07 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
bed006fbdd Allow pack header preprocessing before unpack-objects/index-pack.
Some applications which invoke unpack-objects or index-pack --stdin
may want to examine the pack header to determine the number of
objects contained in the pack and use that value to determine which
executable to invoke to handle the rest of the pack stream.

However if the caller consumes the pack header from the input stream
then its no longer available for unpack-objects or index-pack --stdin,
both of which need the version and object count to process the stream.

This change introduces --pack_header=ver,cnt as a command line option
that the caller can supply to indicate it has already consumed the
pack header and what version and object count were found in that
header.  As this option is only meant for low level applications
such as receive-pack we are not documenting it at this time.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-03 00:24:07 -08:00
Shawn Pearce
b807770924 Teach git-index-pack how to keep a pack file.
To prevent a race condition between `index-pack --stdin` and
`repack -a -d` where the repack deletes the newly created pack
file before any refs are updated to reference objects contained
within it we mark the pack file as one that should be kept.  This
removes it from the list of packs that `repack -a -d` will consider
for removal.

Callers such as `receive-pack` which want to invoke `index-pack`
should use this new --keep option to prevent the newly created pack
and index file pair from being deleted before they have finished any
related ref updates.  Only after all ref updates have been finished
should the associated .keep file be removed.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-29 13:45:03 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
b89c4e93cc index-pack: minor fixes to comment and function name
Use proper english. Be more exact in one comment.

[jc: I threw in a bit of style clean-up as well]

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-27 15:00:19 -07:00