I've been running a test suite we use to verify Git behaviors across
versions, and the 2.2.0 RCs (0 and 1 both) have a couple of small
behavioral differences. I'm sending them in separate e-mails just to
make the contents easier to grok.
Important: It's entirely possible neither of these is a _bug_; they
may both be intentional changes in behavior.
Second change: git gc --auto now fails if there are loose empty blobs.
We have a test which just touched empty files in objects/17 to trigger
the gc --auto preconditions (Note: I realize this is completely
invalid, and I've changed the test to no longer do this; I'm only
surfacing the behavioral change).
On Xubuntu 14.10 I can reproduce this using bash with the following steps:
git init gc
cd gc
echo Hello, world > file.txt
git add file.txt
git commit -m "Initial commit"
mkdir .git/objects/17
git config gc.auto 2
git config --bool gc.autodetach false
for i in $(seq 1 20); do touch .git/objects/17/$(head -n 4096
/dev/urandom | openssl sha1 | cut -c 10-47); done
(openssl sha1 on my machine prefixes the SHA-1s with "(stdin)= ", so
the cut is both to shorten the SHA-1 and to drop that prefix)
In 2.1.x and prior, git gc --auto appears to ignore those objects and
exit 0, although it does note that there are still too many loose
objects:
bturner@felurian:~/tmp/gc$ git version
git version 2.1.0
bturner@felurian:~/tmp/gc$ git gc --auto
Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.
See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
Nothing new to pack.
warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune'
to remove them.
In the 2.2.0 RCs git gc --auto exits with 255 and the following errors:
bturner@felurian:~/tmp/gc$ /opt/git-2.2.0-rc1/bin/git gc --auto
Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.
See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
Nothing new to pack.
error: object file
.git/objects/17/02d54e8fba95ef9968a0c9b183fe22ec551c86 is empty
fatal: unable to get object info for 1702d54e8fba95ef9968a0c9b183fe22ec551c86
error: failed to run prune
Making git gc more sensitive to invalid objects may be a good thing. I
only point out this behavior change because the change it bisects to
doesn't really cite this as an intentional change.
This change bisects to:
bturner@felurian:~/Development/git/git$ git bisect good
d3038d22f91aad9620bd8e6fc43fc67c16219738 is the first bad commit
commit d3038d22f91aad9620bd8e6fc43fc67c16219738
Author: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 15 18:41:35 2014 -0400
prune: keep objects reachable from recent objects
Best regards,
Bryan Turner
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