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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-07-19 11:30:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-07-19 11:30:19 -0700 |
| commit | 4308d81d456c8c3ecc2c33af7f4d834de95130b9 (patch) | |
| tree | faf4ca256e9390ab147ce2e213179936a2e01a92 /Documentation | |
| parent | The fifth batch (diff) | |
| parent | t5319: use 'test-tool path-utils' instead of 'ls -l' (diff) | |
| download | tgif-4308d81d456c8c3ecc2c33af7f4d834de95130b9.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'ds/midx-expire-repack'
"git multi-pack-index" learned expire and repack subcommands.
* ds/midx-expire-repack:
t5319: use 'test-tool path-utils' instead of 'ls -l'
t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: test batch size zero
midx: add test that 'expire' respects .keep files
multi-pack-index: test expire while adding packs
midx: implement midx_repack()
multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' subcommand
multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' subcommand
midx: refactor permutation logic and pack sorting
midx: simplify computation of pack name lengths
multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand
Docs: rearrange subcommands for multi-pack-index
repack: refactor pack deletion for future use
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt b/Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt index f7778a2c85..233b2b7862 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-multi-pack-index - Write and verify multi-pack-indexes SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git multi-pack-index' [--object-dir=<dir>] <verb> +'git multi-pack-index' [--object-dir=<dir>] <subcommand> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -23,13 +23,35 @@ OPTIONS `<dir>/packs/multi-pack-index` for the current MIDX file, and `<dir>/packs` for the pack-files to index. +The following subcommands are available: + write:: - When given as the verb, write a new MIDX file to - `<dir>/packs/multi-pack-index`. + Write a new MIDX file. verify:: - When given as the verb, verify the contents of the MIDX file - at `<dir>/packs/multi-pack-index`. + Verify the contents of the MIDX file. + +expire:: + Delete the pack-files that are tracked by the MIDX file, but + have no objects referenced by the MIDX. Rewrite the MIDX file + afterward to remove all references to these pack-files. + +repack:: + Create a new pack-file containing objects in small pack-files + referenced by the multi-pack-index. If the size given by the + `--batch-size=<size>` argument is zero, then create a pack + containing all objects referenced by the multi-pack-index. For + a non-zero batch size, Select the pack-files by examining packs + from oldest-to-newest, computing the "expected size" by counting + the number of objects in the pack referenced by the + multi-pack-index, then divide by the total number of objects in + the pack and multiply by the pack size. We select packs with + expected size below the batch size until the set of packs have + total expected size at least the batch size. If the total size + does not reach the batch size, then do nothing. If a new pack- + file is created, rewrite the multi-pack-index to reference the + new pack-file. A later run of 'git multi-pack-index expire' will + delete the pack-files that were part of this batch. EXAMPLES |