On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 02:18:33AM +0000, ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget wrote:
> diff --git a/builtin/gc.c b/builtin/gc.c
> index 77904694c9f..8656e1caff0 100644
> --- a/builtin/gc.c
> +++ b/builtin/gc.c
> @@ -433,7 +433,8 @@ static int keep_one_pack(struct string_list_item *item, void *data UNUSED)
> static void add_repack_all_option(struct gc_config *cfg,
> struct string_list *keep_pack)
> {
> - if (cfg->prune_expire && !strcmp(cfg->prune_expire, "now"))
> + if (cfg->prune_expire && !strcmp(cfg->prune_expire, "now")
> + && !(cfg->cruft_packs && cfg->repack_expire_to))
> strvec_push(&repack, "-a");
I expected to see a mention of repack_expire_to here, but not
cfg->cruft_packs. These two are AND-ed together so we are only disabling
"repack -a" when both options ("--expire-to" and "--cruft") are passed.
Can we --expire-to without cruft? I.e., what should happen with:
git gc --expire-to=some-path --prune=now --no-cruft
Looking at the underlying git-repack, it seems that we only respect
--expire-to at all when used with "--cruft", and don't otherwise
consider it. Which is what the manpage says ("Only useful with --cruft
-d").
But if we look at this proposed patch for example:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/48438876fb42a889110e100a6c42ca84e93aac49.1733011259.git.me@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
then it is expanding how --expire-to is used during the pruning step.
OTOH, I think the way your patch 1 is structured means that we'd always
pass --expire-to to git-repack anyway, and I _think_ even with the patch
linked above that "repack -a -d --expire-to=whatever" would do the right
thing.
In which case the problem really is the combination of cruft packs and
expire-to. Just cruft packs by themselves do not need to override using
"-a" for "--prune=now" because we know that any such cruft pack would be
empty.
So I think this logic is correct. Taylor might have more thoughts,
though (and ideas on whether he intends to revisit that earlier patch).
I do think this change should probably be done as part of patch 1,
rather than introducing a buggy state and then fixing it in patch 2.
-Peff
