I'm trying to write a script that will repack large binary or compressed
objects into their own non-compressed, non-delta'ed pack file.
To make the decision about whether an object should go into this special
pack file or not, I want the output from 'git cat-file --batch-check'.
I get it with something similar to:
git rev-list --objects --all |
sed -e 's/^\([0-9a-f]\{40\}\).*/\1/' |
git cat-file --batch-check
First question: Is the rev-list call correct?
-If I am understanding things right, then the list of objects produced
by rev-list will be in the right order for piping to pack-objects.
-The sed statement is stripping off anything after the sha1. Any way to
get rev-list to print out just the sha1 so that sed is not necessary?
Then I want to parse the output from cat-file and use an external program
to detect the file format. Here is a simplified version:
| while read sha1 type size; do
if [ $type = "blob" ]; then
if ! ( git cat-file blob "$sha1" | file -b - | grep text ) &&
[ $size -ge $threshhold ]; then
# pack into special pack
else
# pack normally into normal pack
fi
fi
done
All of this has actually been rewritten into a perl script, so ignore any
syntax mistakes.
I have successfully created two of the pack files that I have been trying to
make. Where the definition of successful means that after removing the existing
packs and objects, and putting in place the two pack files that I generated,
'git fsck --full' prints no errors and exits successfully.
These two packs will be placed into a central repository.
ISSUE TWO:
I have placed these two packs into my own personal repo, and I have unpacked all
of the other objects so that they are loose.
I thought I could use a similar sequence of commands to pack those loose objects
into a normal and special pack. I added the --unpacked option to my rev-list
command, but it still lists many more objects than exist loosely in the repository.
git rev-list --objects --unpacked --all
The man page says:
--objects
Print the object IDs of any object referenced by the listed
commits. --objects foo ^bar thus means "send me all object IDs
which I need to download if I have the commit object bar, but
not foo".
--unpacked
Only useful with --objects; print the object IDs that are not
in packs.
Is this the correct behavior for rev-list --unpacked?
Am I mis-reading the --unpacked text, or should it be changed?
-brandon
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