Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> That's going to be super rare (and probably nonexisting) edge case, but
> (untested) I wonder if something like this on top would alleviate your
> concerns, i.e. instead of dying we just take the first N packs up to our
> limit:
>
> diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
> index 4406af640f..49d467ab2a 100644
> --- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
> +++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
> @@ -1065,8 +1065,9 @@ static int want_object_in_pack(const struct object_id *oid,
>
> want = 1;
> done:
> - if (want && *found_pack && !(*found_pack)->index)
> - oe_add_pack(&to_pack, *found_pack);
> + if (want && *found_pack && !(*found_pack)->index) {
> + if (oe_add_pack(&to_pack, *found_pack) == -1)
> + return 0;
>
> return want;
> }
It is probably a small first step in the right direction, but we'd
need to communicate which packs we ignored with this logic to the
calling program. I offhand do not know how we would handle the "-d"
part of "repack -a -d" without it.
