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Junio C Hamano
54797b98b8 Merge branch 'bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option'
'git commit -m "$str"' when $str was already terminated with a LF
now avoids adding an extra LF to the message.

* bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option:
  Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup section
  git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary
  t7502: demonstrate breakage with a commit message with trailing newlines
  t/t7502: compare entire commit message with what was expected
2013-03-21 14:02:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f5715de54a Merge branch 'nd/count-garbage'
"git count-objects -v" did not count leftover temporary packfiles
and other kinds of garbage.

* nd/count-garbage:
  count-objects: report how much disk space taken by garbage files
  count-objects: report garbage files in pack directory too
  sha1_file: reorder code in prepare_packed_git_one()
  git-count-objects.txt: describe each line in -v output
2013-03-21 14:02:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e4e1c54990 Merge branch 'jc/fetch-raw-sha1'
Allows requests to fetch objects at any tip of refs (including
hidden ones).  It seems that there may be use cases even outside
Gerrit (e.g. $gmane/215701).

* jc/fetch-raw-sha1:
  fetch: fetch objects by their exact SHA-1 object names
  upload-pack: optionally allow fetching from the tips of hidden refs
  fetch: use struct ref to represent refs to be fetched
  parse_fetch_refspec(): clarify the codeflow a bit
2013-03-21 14:02:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
09386fff33 Merge branch 'nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow'
* nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow:
  index-pack: fix buffer overflow caused by translations
2013-03-21 14:02:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9adf272a38 Merge branch 'gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs'
* gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs:
  Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
2013-03-19 12:16:22 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
5c3459fc61 index-pack: fix buffer overflow caused by translations
The translation of "completed with %d local objects" is put in a
48-byte buffer, which may be enough for English but not true for any
translations. Convert it to use strbuf (i.e. no hard limit on
translation length).

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-16 22:08:53 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
c6898ebf21 add: update pathless 'add [-u|-A]' warning to reflect change of plan
We originally thought the transition would need a period where "git add
[-u|-A]" without pathspec would be forbidden, but the warning is big
enough to scare people and teach them not to use it (or, if so, to
understand the consequences).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-11 07:57:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ef94636a4d Merge branch 'as/check-ignore'
"git check-ignore ." segfaulted, as a function it calls deep in its
callchain took a string in the <ptr, length> form but did not stop
when given an empty string.

* as/check-ignore:
  name-hash: allow hashing an empty string
  t0008: document test_expect_success_multi
2013-02-25 08:27:09 -08:00
Greg Price
48dfe969fc Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
A couple of references still survive to .git/refs as a tree
of all refs.  Fix one in docs, one in a -h message, one in
a -h message quoted in docs.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-24 22:23:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c19387e799 name-hash: allow hashing an empty string
Usually we do not pass an empty string to the function hash_name()
because we almost always ask for hash values for a path that is a
candidate to be added to the index. However, check-ignore (and most
likely check-attr, but I didn't check) apparently has a callchain
to ask the hash value for an empty path when it was given a "." from
the top-level directory to ask "Is the path . excluded by default?"

Make sure that hash_name() does not overrun the end of the given
pathname even when it is empty.

Remove a sweep-the-issue-under-the-rug conditional in check-ignore
that avoided to pass an empty string to the callchain while at it.
It is a valid question to ask for check-ignore if the top-level is
set to be ignored by default, even though the answer is most likely
no, if only because there is currently no way to specify such an
entry in the .gitignore file. But it is an unusual thing to ask and
it is not worth optimizing for it by special casing at the top level
of the call chain.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 14:00:12 -08:00
Brandon Casey
a24a41ea9a git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary
Currently, git will append two newlines to every message supplied via
the -m switch.  The purpose of this is to allow -m to be supplied
multiple times and have each supplied string become a paragraph in the
resulting commit message.

Normally, this does not cause a problem since any trailing newlines will
be removed by the cleanup operation.  If cleanup=verbatim for example,
then the trailing newlines will not be removed and will survive into the
resulting commit message.

Instead, let's ensure that the string supplied to -m is newline terminated,
but only append a second newline when appending additional messages.

Fixes the test in t7502.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 09:30:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ce735bf7fd Merge branch 'jc/hidden-refs'
Allow the server side to redact the refs/ namespace it shows to the
client.

Will merge to 'master'.

* jc/hidden-refs:
  upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies
  upload-pack: simplify request validation
  upload-pack: share more code
2013-02-17 15:25:57 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1a20dd49f8 count-objects: report how much disk space taken by garbage files
Also issue warnings on loose garbages instead of errors as a result of
using report_garbage() function in count_objects()

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-15 09:02:34 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
543c5caa6c count-objects: report garbage files in pack directory too
prepare_packed_git_one() is modified to allow count-objects to hook a
report function to so we don't need to duplicate the pack searching
logic in count-objects.c. When report_pack_garbage is NULL, the
overhead is insignificant.

The garbage is reported with warning() instead of error() in packed
garbage case because it's not an error to have garbage. Loose garbage
is still reported as errors and will be converted to warnings later.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-15 08:13:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d3354cde33 Merge branch 'jc/extended-fake-ancestor-for-gitlink'
Instead of requiring the full 40-hex object names on the index
line, we can read submodule commit object names from the textual
diff when synthesizing a fake ancestore tree for "git am -3".

* jc/extended-fake-ancestor-for-gitlink:
  apply: verify submodule commit object name better
2013-02-14 10:28:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5bf72ed2e7 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Replace filepattern with pathspec for consistency
2013-02-12 12:23:12 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
d32805dce7 Replace filepattern with pathspec for consistency
pathspec is the most widely used term, and is the one defined in
gitglossary.txt. <filepattern> was used only in the synopsys for git-add
and git-commit, and in git-add.txt. Get rid of it.

This patch is obtained with by running:

  perl -pi -e 's/filepattern/pathspec/' `git grep -l filepattern`

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-12 10:05:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ecf6778e8e Merge branch 'jk/apply-similaritly-parsing'
Make sure the similarity value shown in the "apply --summary"
output is sensible, even when the input had a bogus value.

* jk/apply-similaritly-parsing:
  builtin/apply: tighten (dis)similarity index parsing
2013-02-08 15:29:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
427c6d0caf Merge branch 'jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs' into maint
Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
has been broken since v1.7.12.

* jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs:
  apply: diagnose incomplete submodule object name better
  apply: simplify build_fake_ancestor()
  git-am: record full index line in the patch used while rebasing
2013-02-07 15:14:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f507784d2c Merge branch 'nd/branch-error-cases'
Fix various error messages and conditions in "git branch", e.g. we
advertised "branch -d/-D" to remove one or more branches but actually
implemented removal of zero or more branches---request to remove no
branches was not rejected.

* nd/branch-error-cases:
  branch: let branch filters imply --list
  docs: clarify git-branch --list behavior
  branch: mark more strings for translation
  branch: give a more helpful message on redundant arguments
  branch: reject -D/-d without branch name
2013-02-07 14:41:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f2db854d24 fetch: use struct ref to represent refs to be fetched
Even though "git fetch" has full infrastructure to parse refspecs to
be fetched and match them against the list of refs to come up with
the final list of refs to be fetched, the list of refs that are
requested to be fetched were internally converted to a plain list of
strings at the transport layer and then passed to the underlying
fetch-pack driver.

Stop this conversion and instead pass around an array of refs.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-07 13:53:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
daebaa7813 upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies
A repository may have refs that are only used for its internal
bookkeeping purposes that should not be exposed to the others that
come over the network.

Teach upload-pack to omit some refs from its initial advertisement
by paying attention to the uploadpack.hiderefs multi-valued
configuration variable.  Do the same to receive-pack via the
receive.hiderefs variable.  As a convenient short-hand, allow using
transfer.hiderefs to set the value to both of these variables.

Any ref that is under the hierarchies listed on the value of these
variable is excluded from responses to requests made by "ls-remote",
"fetch", etc. (for upload-pack) and "push" (for receive-pack).

Because these hidden refs do not count as OUR_REF, an attempt to
fetch objects at the tip of them will be rejected, and because these
refs do not get advertised, "git push :" will not see local branches
that have the same name as them as "matching" ones to be sent.

An attempt to update/delete these hidden refs with an explicit
refspec, e.g. "git push origin :refs/hidden/22", is rejected.  This
is not a new restriction.  To the pusher, it would appear that there
is no such ref, so its push request will conclude with "Now that I
sent you all the data, it is time for you to update the refs.  I saw
that the ref did not exist when I started pushing, and I want the
result to point at this commit".  The receiving end will apply the
compare-and-swap rule to this request and rejects the push with
"Well, your update request conflicts with somebody else; I see there
is such a ref.", which is the right thing to do. Otherwise a push to
a hidden ref will always be "the last one wins", which is not a good
default.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-07 13:48:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6d81ce0543 Merge branch 'jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs'
Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
was broken since v1.7.12.

* jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs:
  apply: diagnose incomplete submodule object name better
  apply: simplify build_fake_ancestor()
  git-am: record full index line in the patch used while rebasing
2013-02-05 16:13:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5e026920a9 apply: verify submodule commit object name better
A textual patch also records the submodule commit object name in
full.  Make the parsing more robust by reading from there and
verifying the (possibly abbreviated) name on the index line matches.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-05 11:20:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d5365b4327 Merge branch 'jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free'
Clarify the ownership rule for commit->buffer field, which some
callers incorrectly accessed without making sure it is populated.

* jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free:
  logmsg_reencode: lazily load missing commit buffers
  logmsg_reencode: never return NULL
  commit: drop useless xstrdup of commit message
2013-02-04 10:25:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
27d46a7072 Merge branch 'mm/add-u-A-sans-pathspec'
Forbid "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec run from a
subdirectory, to train people to type "." (or ":/") to make the
choice of default does not matter.

* mm/add-u-A-sans-pathspec:
  add: warn when -u or -A is used without pathspec
2013-02-04 10:25:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
370855e967 Merge branch 'jc/push-reject-reasons'
Improve error and advice messages given locally when "git push"
refuses when it cannot compute fast-forwardness by separating these
cases from the normal "not a fast-forward; merge first and push
again" case.

* jc/push-reject-reasons:
  push: finishing touches to explain REJECT_ALREADY_EXISTS better
  push: introduce REJECT_FETCH_FIRST and REJECT_NEEDS_FORCE
  push: further simplify the logic to assign rejection reason
  push: further clean up fields of "struct ref"
2013-02-04 10:25:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
099ba556d0 Merge branch 'jk/config-parsing-cleanup'
Configuration parsing for tar.* configuration variables were
broken. Introduce a new config-keyname parser API to make the
callers much less error prone.

* jk/config-parsing-cleanup:
  reflog: use parse_config_key in config callback
  help: use parse_config_key for man config
  submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing
  submodule: use parse_config_key when parsing config
  userdiff: drop parse_driver function
  convert some config callbacks to parse_config_key
  archive-tar: use parse_config_key when parsing config
  config: add helper function for parsing key names
2013-02-04 10:24:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
149a4211a4 Merge branch 'jc/custom-comment-char'
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.

* jc/custom-comment-char:
  Allow custom "comment char"
2013-02-04 10:23:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6cc01490c3 Merge branch 'nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached' into maint
Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while
being on a detached HEAD, errored out.

* nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached:
  branch: no detached HEAD check when editing another branch's description
2013-02-04 10:04:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ba8748e6d6 Merge branch 'jc/help' into maint
* jc/help:
  help: include <common-cmds.h> only in one file
2013-02-04 10:04:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
686b895928 Merge branch 'jc/merge-blobs' into maint
* jc/merge-blobs:
  Makefile: Replace merge-file.h with merge-blobs.h in LIB_H
  merge-tree: fix d/f conflicts
  merge-tree: add comments to clarify what these functions are doing
  merge-tree: lose unused "resolve_directories"
  merge-tree: lose unused "flags" from merge_list
  Which merge_file() function do you mean?
2013-02-04 10:03:41 -08:00
John Keeping
afcb6ac83d builtin/apply: tighten (dis)similarity index parsing
This was prompted by an incorrect warning issued by clang [1], and a
suggestion by Linus to restrict the range to check for values greater
than INT_MAX since these will give bogus output after casting to int.

In fact the (dis)similarity index is a percentage, so reject values
greater than 100.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/213857

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-03 13:47:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d3c0f7773f Merge branch 'nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached'
Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while
being on a detached HEAD, errored out.

* nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached:
  branch: no detached HEAD check when editing another branch's description
2013-02-01 12:40:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4acfff9dda Merge branch 'jk/gc-auto-after-fetch'
Help "fetch only" repositories that do not trigger "gc --auto"
often enough.

* jk/gc-auto-after-fetch:
  fetch-pack: avoid repeatedly re-scanning pack directory
  fetch: run gc --auto after fetching
2013-02-01 12:40:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ba96aa67be Merge branch 'jc/no-git-config-in-clone'
We stopped paying attention to $GIT_CONFIG environment that points
at a single configuration file from any command other than "git config"
quite a while ago, but "git clone" internally set, exported, and
then unexported the variable during its operation unnecessarily.

* jc/no-git-config-in-clone:
  clone: do not export and unexport GIT_CONFIG
2013-02-01 12:39:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2532d891a4 Merge branch 'nd/fetch-depth-is-broken'
"git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways.  The
resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
command, and documentation was misleading.

* nd/fetch-depth-is-broken:
  fetch: elaborate --depth action
  upload-pack: fix off-by-one depth calculation in shallow clone
  fetch: add --unshallow for turning shallow repo into complete one
2013-02-01 12:39:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e28efb1998 apply: diagnose incomplete submodule object name better
"git am -3" uses this function to build a tree that records how the
preimage the patch was created from would have looked like.  An
abbreviated object name on the index line is ordinarily sufficient
for us to figure out the object name the preimage tree would have
contained, but a change to a submodule by definition shows an object
name of a submodule commit which our repository should not have, and
get_sha1_blob() is not an appropriate way to read it (or get_sha1()
for that matter).

Use get_sha1_hex() and complain if we do not find a full object name
there.

We could read from the payload part of the patch to learn the full
object name of the commit, but the primary user "git rebase" has
been fixed to give us a full object name, so this should suffice
for now.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-31 20:30:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e2afb0be90 apply: simplify build_fake_ancestor()
The local variable sha1_ptr in the build_fake_ancestor() function
used to either point at the null_sha1[] (if the ancestor did not
have the path) or at sha1[] (if we read the object name into the
local array), but 7a98869 (apply: get rid of --index-info in favor
of --build-fake-ancestor, 2007-09-17) made the "missing in the
ancestor" case unnecessary, hence sha1_ptr, when used, always points
at the local array.

Get rid of the unneeded variable, and restructure the if/else
cascade a bit to make it easier to read.  There should be no
behaviour change.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-31 20:30:55 -08:00
Jeff King
d040350813 branch: let branch filters imply --list
Currently, a branch filter like `--contains`, `--merged`, or
`--no-merged` is ignored when we are not in listing mode.
For example:

  git branch --contains=foo bar

will create the branch "bar" from the current HEAD, ignoring
the `--contains` argument entirely. This is not very
helpful. There are two reasonable behaviors for git here:

  1. Flag an error; the arguments do not make sense.

  2. Implicitly go into `--list` mode

This patch chooses the latter, as it is more convenient, and
there should not be any ambiguity with attempting to create
a branch; using `--contains` and not wanting to list is
nonsensical.

That leaves the case where an explicit modification option
like `-d` is given.  We already catch the case where
`--list` is given alongside `-d` and flag an error. With
this patch, we will also catch the use of `--contains` and
other filter options alongside `-d`.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-31 16:37:24 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
045e3884bc branch: mark more strings for translation
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-30 09:01:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
35484d4acd Merge branch 'nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached' into HEAD
* nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached:
  branch: no detached HEAD check when editing another branch's description
2013-01-30 09:01:41 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
43722c4d9e branch: give a more helpful message on redundant arguments
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-30 09:00:41 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
640d0401be branch: reject -D/-d without branch name
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-30 09:00:41 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
75135b23f6 branch: no detached HEAD check when editing another branch's description
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-30 08:59:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7b5196909c Merge branch 'nd/magic-pathspec-from-root'
When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names
that come  earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as
pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must
not be interpretable as object names.  Tweak the disambiguation
rule so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is always
interpreted as a pathspec, to avoid having to say "git cmd -- :/".

* nd/magic-pathspec-from-root:
  grep: avoid accepting ambiguous revision
  Update :/abc ambiguity check
2013-01-30 08:52:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d959a78d98 Merge branch 'jc/help'
A header file that has the definition of a static array was
included in two places, wasting the space.

* jc/help:
  help: include <common-cmds.h> only in one file
2013-01-28 10:59:15 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
0fa2eb530f add: warn when -u or -A is used without pathspec
Most Git commands that can be used with or without pathspec operate
tree-wide by default, the pathspec being used to restrict their
scope.  A few exceptions are: 'git grep', 'git clean', 'git add -u'
and 'git add -A'.  When run in a subdirectory without pathspec, they
operate only on paths in the current directory.

The inconsistency of 'git add -u' and 'git add -A' is particularly
problematic since other 'git add' subcommands (namely 'git add -p'
and 'git add -e') are tree-wide by default.  It also means that "git
add -u && git commit" will record a state that is different from
what is recorded with "git commit -a".

Flipping the default now is unacceptable, so let's start training
users to type 'git add -u|-A :/' or 'git add -u|-A .' explicitly, to
prepare for the next steps:

* forbid 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec (like 'git add' without
  option)

* much later, maybe, re-allow 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec, that
  will add all tracked and modified files, or all files, tree-wide.

A nice side effect of this patch is that it makes the :/ magic
pathspec easier to discover for users.

When the command is called from the root of the tree, there is no
ambiguity and no need to change the behavior, hence no need to warn.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-28 10:31:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
012a1bb524 Merge branch 'jk/maint-gc-auto-after-fetch' into jk/gc-auto-after-fetch
* jk/maint-gc-auto-after-fetch:
  fetch-pack: avoid repeatedly re-scanning pack directory
  fetch: run gc --auto after fetching
2013-01-26 19:42:09 -08:00
Jeff King
b495697b82 fetch-pack: avoid repeatedly re-scanning pack directory
When we look up a sha1 object for reading via parse_object() =>
read_sha1_file() => read_object() callpath, we first check
packfiles, and then loose objects. If we still haven't found it, we
re-scan the list of packfiles in `objects/pack`. This final step
ensures that we can co-exist with a simultaneous repack process
which creates a new pack and then prunes the old object.

This extra re-scan usually does not have a performance impact for
two reasons:

  1. If an object is missing, then typically the re-scan will find a
     new pack, then no more misses will occur.  Or if it truly is
     missing, then our next step is usually to die().

  2. Re-scanning is cheap enough that we do not even notice.

However, these do not always hold. The assumption in (1) is that the
caller is expecting to find the object. This is usually the case,
but the call to `parse_object` in `everything_local` does not follow
this pattern. It is looking to see whether we have objects that the
remote side is advertising, not something we expect to
have. Therefore if we are fetching from a remote which has many refs
pointing to objects we do not have, we may end up re-scanning the
pack directory many times.

Even with this extra re-scanning, the impact is often not noticeable
due to (2); we just readdir() the packs directory and skip any packs
that are already loaded. However, if there are a large number of
packs, even enumerating the directory can be expensive, especially
if we do it repeatedly.

Having this many packs is a good sign the user should run `git gc`,
but it would still be nice to avoid having to scan the directory at
all.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-26 19:37:30 -08:00