Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 01:24:48AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> So the only question is how much work we want to put into making sure
>> the new reader handles the old writer correctly. Doing 2c is obviously
>> more rigorous, and it is not that much work to add the fully-packed
>> flag, but I kind of wonder if anybody even cares. We can just say "it's
>> a bug fix; run `git pack-refs` again if you care" and call it a day
>> (i.e., 1b).
>
> Urgh, for some reason I kept writing "fully-packed" but obviously I
> meant "fully-peeled". Hopefully you figured it out.
>
> Just as a quick sketch of how much work is in involved in 2c, I think
> the complete solution would look like this (but note I haven't tested
> this at all):
Looks reasonable from a cursory look, and I think we cannot avoid
going with the route to add "fully-peeled" token, because we do have
to express "we know this ref outside refs/tags/ area is not an
annotated tag" by marking them as REF_KNOWS_PEELED for the peel_ref()
optimization to work.
> diff --git a/pack-refs.c b/pack-refs.c
> index f09a054..261a6a6 100644
> --- a/pack-refs.c
> +++ b/pack-refs.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ static int handle_one_ref(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1,
> int flags, void *cb_data)
> {
> struct pack_refs_cb_data *cb = cb_data;
> + struct object *o;
> int is_tag_ref;
>
> /* Do not pack the symbolic refs */
> @@ -39,14 +40,12 @@ static int handle_one_ref(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1,
> return 0;
>
> fprintf(cb->refs_file, "%s %s\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1), path);
> - if (is_tag_ref) {
> - struct object *o = parse_object(sha1);
> - if (o->type == OBJ_TAG) {
> - o = deref_tag(o, path, 0);
> - if (o)
> - fprintf(cb->refs_file, "^%s\n",
> - sha1_to_hex(o->sha1));
> - }
> + o = parse_object(sha1);
> + if (o->type == OBJ_TAG) {
> + o = deref_tag(o, path, 0);
> + if (o)
> + fprintf(cb->refs_file, "^%s\n",
> + sha1_to_hex(o->sha1));
> }
>
> if ((cb->flags & PACK_REFS_PRUNE) && !do_not_prune(flags)) {
> @@ -128,7 +127,7 @@ int pack_refs(unsigned int flags)
> die_errno("unable to create ref-pack file structure");
>
> /* perhaps other traits later as well */
> - fprintf(cbdata.refs_file, "# pack-refs with: peeled \n");
> + fprintf(cbdata.refs_file, "# pack-refs with: peeled fully-peeled \n");
>
> for_each_ref(handle_one_ref, &cbdata);
> if (ferror(cbdata.refs_file))
> diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
> index 175b9fc..770abf4 100644
> --- a/refs.c
> +++ b/refs.c
> @@ -808,6 +808,7 @@ static void read_packed_refs(FILE *f, struct ref_dir *dir)
> struct ref_entry *last = NULL;
> char refline[PATH_MAX];
> int flag = REF_ISPACKED;
> + int fully_peeled = 0;
>
> while (fgets(refline, sizeof(refline), f)) {
> unsigned char sha1[20];
> @@ -818,13 +819,18 @@ static void read_packed_refs(FILE *f, struct ref_dir *dir)
> const char *traits = refline + sizeof(header) - 1;
> if (strstr(traits, " peeled "))
> flag |= REF_KNOWS_PEELED;
> + if (strstr(traits, " fully-peeled "))
> + fully_peeled = 1;
> /* perhaps other traits later as well */
> continue;
> }
>
> refname = parse_ref_line(refline, sha1);
> if (refname) {
> - last = create_ref_entry(refname, sha1, flag, 1);
> + int this_flag = flag;
> + if (!fully_peeled && prefixcmp(refname, "refs/tags/"))
> + this_flag &= ~REF_KNOWS_PEELED;
> + last = create_ref_entry(refname, sha1, this_flag, 1);
> add_ref(dir, last);
> continue;
> }
>
> So it's really not that much code. The bigger question is whether we
> want to have to carry the "fully-peeled" tag forever, and how other
> implementations would treat it.
>
> -Peff
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