On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 05:43:46PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > There are two small problems with this: > > - repack_promisor_objects() may have added entries to "names", and > already called populate_pack_exts() for them. This is mostly just > wasteful, as we'll stat() the filename with each possible extension, > get the same result, and just overwrite our bits. But it makes the > code flow confusing, and it will become a problem if we try to make > populate_pack_exts() do more things. Hmm. I agree with you that repack_promisor_objects() calling populate_pack_exts() itself is at best weird, and at worst wasteful. > > - it would be nice to record the generated filenames as soon as > possible. We don't currently use them for cleaning up from a failed > operation, but a future patch will do so. That said, I think that it's worth having a single spot within cmd_repack() that is responsible for populating the generated pack extensions, since it protects against a caller forgetting to do so (and then tricking repack into thinking that we didn't generate *any* of the corresponding extensions). But I'm sure future patch you're referring to cares about knowing these as soon as possible, since that's the point of this series ;-). I think a reasonable middle ground here is to do something like the following on top of this patch: --- >8 --- diff --git a/builtin/repack.c b/builtin/repack.c index b5bd9e5fed..16a941f48b 100644 --- a/builtin/repack.c +++ b/builtin/repack.c @@ -1002,6 +1002,12 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) return ret; } + for_each_string_list_item(item, &names) { + if (!item->util) + BUG("missing generated_pack_data for pack %s", + item->string); + } + string_list_sort(&names); close_object_store(the_repository->objects); --- 8< --- which still lets you eagerly keep track of the generated pack extensions while also protecting against forgetful callers. Obviously we're relying on a runtime check which is going to be somewhat weaker. But I think The patch itself looks good. Thanks, Taylor