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author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2014-08-12 00:34:53 -0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-08-12 12:17:19 -0700 |
commit | f7f91086a376ba53f8270ea80b7bbbd8274c3c2d (patch) | |
tree | 37490af7d286faf5b7e5c1d7c0f8e3f05f24e456 /Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt | |
parent | Merge branch 'jk/pack-bitmap' (diff) | |
download | tgif-f7f91086a376ba53f8270ea80b7bbbd8274c3c2d.tar.xz |
pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when we see --shallow lines
Reachability bitmaps do not work with shallow operations,
because they cache a view of the object reachability that
represents the true objects. Whereas a shallow repository
(or a shallow operation in a repository) is inherently
cutting off the object graph with a graft.
We explicitly disallow the use of bitmaps in shallow
repositories by checking is_repository_shallow(), and we
should continue to do that. However, we also want to
disallow bitmaps when we are serving a fetch to a shallow
client, since we momentarily take on their grafted view of
the world.
It used to be enough to call is_repository_shallow at the
start of pack-objects. Upload-pack wrote the other side's
shallow state to a temporary file and pointed the whole
pack-objects process at this state with "git --shallow-file",
and from the perspective of pack-objects, we really were
in a shallow repo. But since b790e0f (upload-pack: send
shallow info over stdin to pack-objects, 2014-03-11), we do
it differently: we send --shallow lines to pack-objects over
stdin, and it registers them itself.
This means that our is_repository_shallow check is way too
early (we have not been told about the shallowness yet), and
that it is insufficient (calling is_repository_shallow is
not enough, as the shallow grafts we register do not change
its return value). Instead, we can just turn off bitmaps
explicitly when we see these lines.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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