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| author | Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> | 2023-04-18 16:40:38 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-04-18 14:56:47 -0700 |
| commit | 05b9013b7181e0c842517ce76aeab25a56670dc0 (patch) | |
| tree | c48afe3e1b6ed4da6df395da6e4789d57964e25c /Documentation/config | |
| parent | c512f31109ea09a6db72af0af4572dc0a2c2df0f (diff) | |
| download | git-05b9013b7181e0c842517ce76aeab25a56670dc0.tar.gz | |
builtin/gc.c: ignore cruft packs with `--keep-largest-pack`
When cruft packs were implemented, we never adjusted the code for `git
gc`'s `--keep-largest-pack` and `gc.bigPackThreshold` to ignore cruft
packs. This option and configuration option share a common
implementation, but including cruft packs is wrong in both cases:
- Running `git gc --keep-largest-pack` in a repository where the
largest pack is the cruft pack itself will make it impossible for
`git gc` to prune objects, since the cruft pack itself is kept.
- The same is true for `gc.bigPackThreshold`, if the size of the cruft
pack exceeds the limit set by the caller.
In the future, it is possible that `gc.bigPackThreshold` could be used
to write a separate cruft pack containing any new unreachable objects
that entered the repository since the last time a cruft pack was
written.
There are some complexities to doing so, mainly around handling
pruning objects that are in an existing cruft pack that is above the
threshold (which would either need to be rewritten, or else delay
pruning). Rewriting a substantially similar cruft pack isn't ideal, but
it is significantly better than the status-quo.
If users have large cruft packs that they don't want to rewrite, they
can mark them as `*.keep` packs. But in general, if a repository has a
cruft pack that is so large it is slowing down GC's, it should probably
be pruned anyway.
In the meantime, ignore cruft packs in the common implementation for
both of these options, and add a pair of tests to prevent any future
regressions here.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/gc.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/gc.txt b/Documentation/config/gc.txt index 38fea076a2..8d5353e9e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gc.txt @@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ gc.autoDetach:: if the system supports it. Default is true. gc.bigPackThreshold:: - If non-zero, all packs larger than this limit are kept when - `git gc` is run. This is very similar to `--keep-largest-pack` - except that all packs that meet the threshold are kept, not - just the largest pack. Defaults to zero. Common unit suffixes of - 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. + If non-zero, all non-cruft packs larger than this limit are kept + when `git gc` is run. This is very similar to + `--keep-largest-pack` except that all non-cruft packs that meet + the threshold are kept, not just the largest pack. Defaults to + zero. Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. + Note that if the number of kept packs is more than gc.autoPackLimit, this configuration variable is ignored, all packs except the base pack |