On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 07:26:04PM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > The problems are quite multi-faceted, but taken on their own most of the > > problems actually seem quite easy to fix. I've got a local patch series > > that addresses almost all of the pain points I have found until now: > > > > - A segfault in git-multi-pack-index(1) when passed no packfiles and a > > preferred packfile that it cannot find. > > > > - The issue that git-repack(1) asks git-multi-pack-index(1) to write an > > MIDX with packs that it cannot actually track because they are not > > local. > > > > - An issue with git-pack-objects(1) that keeps it from packing objects > > that are non-local due to the way `--stdin-packs` is only referring to > > the packfile basenames. > > > > - The fact that we don't honor `-l` when doing geometric repacking. > > Ah, one more thing I forgot: add a safety mechanism that disables > writing bitmaps when we see non-local packs. Thank you very much for working on this. For what it's worth, I think that this whole thing is pretty cool. Having a couple of different forges use this feature in subtly different ways is proving to be an extremely effective way to shake out subtle bugs in the implementation. Thanks, Taylor
