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2026-08-13builtin/repack: enumerate promisor blobs for --drop-filteredSiddharth Shrimali1-0/+4
Add enumeration logic for --drop-filtered. In --dry-run mode, print the OIDs of locally-held promisor blobs that exceed the filter threshold, as candidates for removal. Reading from write_filtered_pack() cannot work for partial clones. git repack routes promisor objects through a separate path: repack_promisor_objects() repacks them first, and the main pack-objects run uses --exclude-promisor-objects. By the time write_filtered_pack() runs, the promisor blobs are already consumed by the main pack. The filtered pack is always empty on a partial clone. Instead, walk promisor objects directly via odb_for_each_object() with ODB_FOR_EACH_OBJECT_PROMISOR_ONLY, collecting all promisor blobs into an oidset. The blobs exceeding the filter threshold are then selected using list_objects_filter__filter_oidset(). Every object enumerated this way is a promisor object, so it is recoverable from the promisor remote in the same sense as the rest of a partial clone, as long as the remote still has it. This holds without a separate is_promisor_object() check. A future implementation can verify availability against the remote directly once a client-side remote-object-info query exists. OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT is passed to every object info query so enumeration never triggers a lazy fetch. The enumeration collects candidates into a caller-provided oidset and --dry-run prints them. Actually removing the objects, together with the required promisor-remote verification, is written in a later commit. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-08-13repack-promisor: allow excluding objects from the rebuilt promisor packSiddharth Shrimali1-1/+3
Add a to_drop oidset parameter to repack_promisor_objects(). When it is non-NULL, write_oid() omits those objects from the rebuilt promisor pack. This is the mechanism --drop-filtered will use to remove promisor blobs, i.e. rebuild the promisor pack without them. All existing callers pass NULL, so behavior is unchanged. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-20repack: introduce `--write-midx=incremental`Taylor Blau1-3/+7
Expose the incremental MIDX repacking mode (implemented in an earlier commit) via a new --write-midx=incremental option for `git repack`. Add "incremental" as a recognized argument to the --write-midx OPT_CALLBACK, mapping it to REPACK_WRITE_MIDX_INCREMENTAL. When this mode is active and --geometric is in use, set the midx_layer_threshold on the pack geometry so that only packs in sufficiently large tip layers are considered for repacking. Two new configuration options control the compaction behavior: - repack.midxSplitFactor (default: 2): the factor used in the geometric merging condition for MIDX layers. - repack.midxNewLayerThreshold (default: 8): the minimum number of packs in the tip MIDX layer before its packs are considered as candidates for geometric repacking. Add tests exercising the new mode across a variety of scenarios including basic geometric violations, multi-round chain integrity, branching and merging histories, cross-layer object uniqueness, and threshold-based compaction. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-20repack: implement incremental MIDX repackingTaylor Blau1-0/+3
Implement the `write_midx_incremental()` function, which builds and maintains an incremental MIDX chain as part of the geometric repacking process. Unlike the default mode which writes a single flat MIDX, the incremental mode constructs a compaction plan that determines which MIDX layers to write, compact, or copy, and then executes each step using `git multi-pack-index` subcommands with the --no-write-chain-file flag. The repacking strategy works as follows: * Acquire the lock guarding the multi-pack-index-chain. * A new MIDX layer is always written containing the newly created pack(s). If the tip MIDX layer was rewritten during geometric repacking, any surviving packs from that layer are also included. * Starting from the new layer, adjacent MIDX layers are merged together as long as the accumulated object count exceeds half the object count of the next deeper layer (controlled by 'repack.midxSplitFactor'). * Remaining layers in the chain are evaluated pairwise and either compacted or copied as-is, following the same merging condition. * Write the contents of the new multi-pack-index chain, atomically move it into place, and then release the lock. * Delete any now-unused MIDX layers. After writing the new layer, the strategy is evaluated among the existing MIDX layers in order from oldest to newest. Each step that writes a new MIDX layer uses "--no-write-chain-file" to avoid updating the multi-pack-index-chain file. After all steps are complete, the new chain file is written and then atomically moved into place. At present, this functionality is exposed behind a new enum value, `REPACK_WRITE_MIDX_INCREMENTAL`, but has no external callers. A subsequent commit will expose this mode via `git repack --write-midx=incremental`. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-20builtin/repack.c: convert `--write-midx` to an `OPT_CALLBACK`Taylor Blau1-1/+7
Change the --write-midx (-m) flag from an OPT_BOOL to an OPT_CALLBACK that accepts an optional mode argument. Introduce an enum with REPACK_WRITE_MIDX_NONE and REPACK_WRITE_MIDX_DEFAULT to distinguish between the two states, and update all existing boolean checks accordingly. For now, passing no argument (or just `-m`) selects the default mode, preserving existing behavior. A subsequent commit will add a new mode for writing incremental MIDXs. Extract repack_write_midx() as a dispatcher that selects the appropriate MIDX-writing implementation based on the mode. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-20repack-geometry: prepare for incremental MIDX repackingTaylor Blau1-0/+4
Teach `pack_geometry_init()` to optionally restrict the set of repacking candidates to only packs in the tip MIDX layer when a `midx_layer_threshold` is configured. If the tip layer has fewer packs than the threshold, those packs are excluded entirely; otherwise only packs in that layer participate in the geometric repack. Also track whether any tip-layer packs were included in the rollup (`midx_tip_rewritten`), which a subsequent commit will use to decide how to update the MIDX chain after repacking. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-20repack: track the ODB source via existing_packsTaylor Blau1-0/+1
Store the ODB source in the `existing_packs` struct and use that in place of the raw `repo->objects->sources` access within `cmd_repack()`. The source used is still assigned from the first source in the list, so there are no functional changes in this commit. The changes instead serve two purposes (one immediate, one not): - The incremental MIDX-based repacking machinery will need to know what source is being used to read the existing MIDX/chain (should one exist). - In the future, if "git repack" is taught how to operate on other object sources, this field will serve as the authoritative value for that source. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-14builtin/repack: handle promisor packs with geometric repackingPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+10
When performing a fetch with an object filter, we mark the resulting packfile as a promisor pack. An object part of such a pack may miss any of its referenced objects, and Git knows to handle this case by fetching any such missing objects from the promisor remote. The "promisor" property needs to be retained going forward. So every time we pack a promisor object, the resulting pack must be marked as a promisor pack. git-repack(1) does this already: when a repository has a promisor remote, it knows to pass "--exclude-promisor-objects" to the git-pack-objects(1) child process. Promisor packs are written separately when doing an all-into-one repack via `repack_promisor_objects()`. But we don't support promisor objects when doing a geometric repack yet. Promisor packs do not get any special treatment there, as we simply merge promisor and non-promisor packs. The resulting pack is not even marked as a promisor pack, which essentially corrupts the repository. This corruption couldn't happen in the real world though: we pass both "--exclude-promisor-objects" and "--stdin-packs" to git-pack-objects(1) if a repository has a promisor remote, but as those options are mutually exclusive we always end up dying. And while we made those flags compatible with one another in a preceding commit, we still end up dying in case git-pack-objects(1) is asked to repack a promisor pack. There's multiple ways to fix this: - We can exclude promisor packs from the geometric progression altogether. This would have the consequence that we never repack promisor packs at all. But in a partial clone it is quite likely that the user generates a bunch of promisor packs over time, as every backfill fetch would create another one. So this doesn't really feel like a sensible option. - We can adapt git-pack-objects(1) to support repacking promisor packs and include them in the normal geometric progression. But this would mean that the set of promisor objects expands over time as the packs are merged with normal packs. - We can use a separate geometric progression to repack promisor packs. The first two options both have significant downsides, so they aren't really feasible. But the third option fixes both of these downsides: we make sure that promisor packs get merged, and at the same time we never expand the set of promisor objects beyond the set of objects that are already marked as promisor objects. Implement this strategy so that geometric repacking works in partial clones. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: move `write_cruft_pack()` out of the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+6
In an identical fashion as the previous commit, move the function `write_cruft_pack()` into its own compilation unit, and make the function visible through the repack.h API. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: move `write_filtered_pack()` out of the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+4
In a similar fashion as in previous commits, move the function `write_filtered_pack()` out of the builtin and into its own compilation unit. This function is now part of the repack.h API, but implemented in its own "repack-filtered.c" unit as it is a separate component from other kinds of repacking operations. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: move `pack_kept_objects` to `struct pack_objects_args`Taylor Blau1-3/+6
The "pack_kept_objects" variable is defined as static to the repack builtin, but is inherently related to the pack-objects arguments that the builtin uses when generating new packs. Move that field into the "struct pack_objects_args", and shuffle around where we append the corresponding command-line option when preparing a pack-objects process. Specifically: - `write_cruft_pack()` always wants to pass "--honor-pack-keep", so explicitly set the `pack_kept_objects` field to "0" when initializing the `write_pack_opts` struct before calling `write_cruft_pack()`. - `write_filtered_pack()` no longer needs to handle writing the command-line option "--honor-pack-keep" when preparing a pack-objects process, since its call to `prepare_pack_objects()` will have already taken care of that. `write_filtered_pack()` also reads the `pack_kept_objects` field to determine whether to write the existing kept packs with a leading "^" character, so update that to read through the `po_args` pointer instead. - `cmd_repack()` also no longer has to write the "--honor-pack-keep" flag explicitly, since this is also handled via its call to `prepare_pack_objects()`. Since there is a default value for "pack_kept_objects" that relies on whether or not we are writing a bitmap (and not writing a MIDX), extract a default initializer for `struct pack_objects_args` that keeps this conditional default behavior. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: move `finish_pack_objects_cmd()` out of the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+5
In a similar spirit as the previous commit(s), now that the function `finish_pack_objects_cmd()` has no explicit dependencies within the repack builtin, let's extract it. This prepares us to extract the remaining two functions within the repack builtin that explicitly write packfiles, which are `write_cruft_pack()` and `write_filtered_pack()`, which will be done in the future commits. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: extract `write_pack_opts_is_local()`Taylor Blau1-0/+1
Similar to the previous commit, the functions `write_cruft_pack()` and `write_filtered_pack()` both compute a "local" variable via the exact same mechanism: const char *scratch; int local = skip_prefix(opts->destination, opts->packdir, &scratch); Not only does this cause us to repeat the same pair of lines, it also introduces an unnecessary "scratch" variable that is common between both functions. Instead of repeating ourselves, let's extract that functionality into a new function in the repack.h API called "write_pack_opts_is_local()". That function takes a pointer to a "struct write_pack_opts" (which has as fields both "destination" and "packdir"), and can encapsulate the dangling "scratch" field. Extract that function and make it visible within the repack.h API, and use it within both `write_cruft_pack()` and `write_filtered_pack()`. While we're at it, match our modern conventions by returning a "bool" instead of "int", and use `starts_with()` instead of `skip_prefix()` to avoid storing the dummy "scratch" variable. The remaining duplication (that is, that both `write_cruft_pack()` and `write_filtered_pack()` still both call `write_pack_opts_is_local()`) will be addressed in the following commit. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: move `find_pack_prefix()` out of the builtinTaylor Blau1-1/+2
Both callers within the repack builtin which call functions that take a 'write_pack_opts' structure have the following pattern: struct write_pack_opts opts = { .packdir = packdir, .packtmp = packtmp, .pack_prefix = find_pack_prefix(packdir, packtmp), /* ... */ }; int ret = write_some_kind_of_pack(&opts, /* ... */); , but both "packdir" and "packtmp" are fields within the write_pack_opts struct itself! Instead of also computing the pack_prefix ahead of time, let's have the callees compute it themselves by moving `find_pack_prefix()` out of the repack builtin, and have it take a write_pack_opts pointer instead of the "packdir" and "packtmp" fields directly. This avoids the callers having to do some prep work that is common between the two of them, but also avoids the potential pitfall of accidentally writing: .pack_prefix = find_pack_prefix(packtmp, packdir), (which is well-typed) when the caller meant to instead write: .pack_prefix = find_pack_prefix(packdir, packtmp), Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16builtin/repack.c: introduce `struct write_pack_opts`Taylor Blau1-0/+8
There are various functions within the 'repack' builtin which are responsible for writing different kinds of packs. They include: - `static int write_filtered_pack(...)` - `static int write_cruft_pack(...)` as well as the function `finish_pack_objects_cmd()`, which is responsible for finalizing a new pack write, and recording the checksum of its contents in the 'names' list. Both of these `write_` functions have a few things in common. They both take a pointer to the 'pack_objects_args' struct, as well as a pair of character pointers for `destination` and `pack_prefix`. Instead of repeating those arguments for each function, let's extract an options struct called "write_pack_opts" which has these three parameters as member fields. While we're at it, add fields for "packdir," and "packtmp", both of which are static variables within the builtin, and need to be read from within these two functions. This will shorten the list of parameters that callers have to provide to `write_filtered_pack()`, avoid ambiguity when passing multiple variables of the same type, and provide a unified interface for the two functions mentioned earlier. (Note that "pack_prefix" can be derived on the fly as a function of "packdir" and "packtmp", making it unnecessary to store "pack_prefix" explicitly. This commit ignores that potential cleanup in the name of doing as few things as possible, but a later commit will make that change.) Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: 'write_midx_included_packs' API from the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+12
Now that we have sufficiently cleaned up the write_midx_included_packs() function, we can move it (along with the struct repack_write_midx_opts) out of the builtin, and into the repack.h header. Since this function (and the static ones that it depends on) are MIDX-specific details of the repacking process, move them to the repack-midx.c compilation unit instead of the general repack.c one. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: keep track of MIDX pack names using existing_packsTaylor Blau1-0/+1
Instead of storing the list of MIDX pack names separately, let's inline it into the existing_packs struct, further reducing the number of parameters we have to pass around. This amounts to adding a new string_list to the existing_packs struct, and populating it via `existing_packs_collect()`. This is fairly straightforward to do, since we are already looping over all packs, all we need to do is: if (p->multi_pack_index) string_list_append(&existing->midx_packs, pack_basename(p)); Note, however, that this check *must* come before other conditions where we discard and do not keep track of a pack, including the condition "if (!p->pack_local)" immediately below. This is because the existing routine which collects MIDX pack names does so blindly, and does not discard, for example, non-local packs. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16builtin/repack.c: remove ref snapshotting from builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+4
When writing a MIDX, 'git repack' takes a snapshot of the repository's references and writes the result out to a file, which it then passes to 'git multi-pack-index write' via the '--refs-snapshot'. This is done in order to make bitmap selections with respect to what we are packing, thus avoiding a race where an incoming reference update causes us to try and write a bitmap for a commit not present in the MIDX. Extract this functionality out into a new repack-midx.c compilation unit, and expose the necessary functions via the repack.h API. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: remove pack_geometry API from the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+20
Now that the pack_geometry API is fully factored and isolated from the rest of the builtin, declare it within repack.h and move its implementation to "repack-geometry.c" as a separate component. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16builtin/repack.c: remove "repack_promisor_objects()" from the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+4
Now that we have properly factored the portion of the builtin which is responsible for repacking promisor objects, we can move that function (and associated dependencies) out of the builtin entirely. Similar to previous extractions, this function is declared in repack.h, but implemented in a separate repack-promisor.c file. This is done to separate promisor-specific repacking functionality from generic repack utilities (like "existing_packs", and "generated_pack" APIs). Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: remove 'generated_pack' API from the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+8
Now that we have factored the "generated_pack" API, we can move it to repack.ch, further slimming down builtin/repack.c. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: remove 'existing_packs' API from the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+35
The repack builtin defines an API for keeping track of which packs were found in the repository at the beginning of the repack operation. This is used to classify what state a pack was in (kept, non-kept, or cruft), and is also used to mark which packs to delete (or keep) at the end of a repack operation. Now that the prerequisite refactoring is complete, this API is isolated enough that it can be moved out to repack.[ch] and removed from the builtin entirely. As a result, some of its functions become static within repack.c, cleaning up the visible API. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: remove 'remove_redundant_pack' from the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+3
Extract "remove_redundant_pack()" as generic repack-related functionality by moving its implementation to the repack.[ch] compilation unit. This is a prerequisite to moving the "existing_packs" API, which is one of the callers of this function. (The remaining caller in the pack geometry code will eventually move to its own compilation unit as well, and will likewise rely on this function.) While moving it over, prefix the function name with "repack_" to indicate that it belongs to the repack-subsystem. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: remove 'prepare_pack_objects' from the builtinTaylor Blau1-0/+5
Now that the 'prepare_pack_objects' function no longer refers to external, static variables, move it out to repack.h as generic functionality. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: move 'delta_base_offset' to 'struct pack_objects_args'Taylor Blau1-0/+3
The static variable 'delta_base_offset' determines whether or not we pass the "--delta-base-offset" command-line argument when spawning pack-objects as a child process. Its introduction dates back to when repack was rewritten in C, all the way back in a1bbc6c017 (repack: rewrite the shell script in C, 2013-09-15). 'struct pack_objects_args' was introduced much later on in 4571324b99 (builtin/repack.c: allow configuring cruft pack generation, 2022-05-20), but did not move the 'delta_base_offset' variable. Since the 'delta_base_offset' is a property of an individual pack-objects command, re-introduce that variable as a member of 'struct pack_objects_args', which will enable further code movement in the subsequent commits. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-16repack: introduce new compilation unitTaylor Blau1-0/+23
Over the years, builtin/repack.c has turned into a grab-bag of functionality powering the 'git repack' builtin. Among its many capabilities, it: - can build and spawn 'git pack-objects' commands, which in turn generate new packs - has infrastructure to manage the set of existing packs in a repository - has infrastructure to split a sequence of packs into a geometric progression based on object size - can manage both generating and combining cruft packs together - can write new MIDXs to name a few. As a result, this builtin has accumulated a lot of code, making adding new functionality difficult. In the future, 'repack' will learn how to manage a chain of incremental MIDXs, adding yet more functionality into the builtin. As a prerequisite step, let's first move some of the functionality in the builtin into its own repack.[ch]. This will be done over the course of many steps, since there are many individual components, some of which will end up in other, yet-to-exist compilation units of their own. Some of the code movement here is also non-trivial, so performing it in individual steps will make it easier to verify. Let's start by migrating 'struct pack_objects_args' (and the related corresponding pack_objects_args_release() function) into repack.h, and teach both the Makefile and Meson how to build the new compilation unit. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>