On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 05:23:22PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 05:22:04PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote: > > > So it gets tricky when you have a pack.extraCruftTips program and want > > to invoke it in a non-pruning case. You could do something like: > > > > - call enumerate_and_traverse_cruft_objects() *always*, either because > > we were doing a pruning GC, or calling it after > > `enumerate_cruft_objects()` (in the non-pruning case) > > > > - ensure that enumerate_and_traverse_cruft_objects() is a noop when > > (a) cruft_expiration is set to zero, and (b) there are no > > pack.extraCruftTips programs specified > > I'm not sure why you'd need to traverse, though. If we are in "-k" mode, > we are keeping everything anyway (so I don't even see the point of > asking the helper about extra tips). And all of those objects that are > not reachable from the regular traversal are by definition "cruft" and > go into the cruft pack. > > Maybe I don't understand what you mean by "non-pruning" here. By non-pruning, I meant something like "git gc --prune=never", which would run the equivalent of `git repack -A` to generate the pack containing just reachable objects, and then invoke `git pack-objects --cruft` to generate the cruft pack. Thanks, Taylor
