pack-objects: turn off bitmaps when skipping objects

The pack bitmap format requires that we have a single bit
for each object in the pack, and that each object's bitmap
represents its complete set of reachable objects. Therefore
we have no way to represent the bitmap of an object which
references objects outside the pack.

We notice this problem while generating the bitmaps, as we
try to find the offset of a particular object and realize
that we do not have it. In this case we die, and neither the
bitmap nor the pack is generated. This is correct, but
perhaps a little unfriendly. If you have bitmaps turned on
in the config, many repacks will fail which would otherwise
succeed. E.g., incremental repacks, repacks with "-l" when
you have alternates, ".keep" files.

Instead, this patch notices early that we are omitting some
objects from the pack and turns off bitmaps (with a
warning). Note that this is not strictly correct, as it's
possible that the object being omitted is not reachable from
any other object in the pack. In practice, this is almost
never the case, and there are two advantages to doing it
this way:

  1. The code is much simpler, as we do not have to cleanly
     abort the bitmap-generation process midway through.

  2. We do not waste time partially generating bitmaps only
     to find out that some object deep in the history is not
     being packed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index fd741970e6..50d794f5d9 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -1000,6 +1000,10 @@ static void create_object_entry(const unsigned char *sha1,
 	entry->no_try_delta = no_try_delta;
 }
 
+static const char no_closure_warning[] = N_(
+"disabling bitmap writing, as some objects are not being packed"
+);
+
 static int add_object_entry(const unsigned char *sha1, enum object_type type,
 			    const char *name, int exclude)
 {
@@ -1010,8 +1014,14 @@ static int add_object_entry(const unsigned char *sha1, enum object_type type,
 	if (have_duplicate_entry(sha1, exclude, &index_pos))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (!want_object_in_pack(sha1, exclude, &found_pack, &found_offset))
+	if (!want_object_in_pack(sha1, exclude, &found_pack, &found_offset)) {
+		/* The pack is missing an object, so it will not have closure */
+		if (write_bitmap_index) {
+			warning(_(no_closure_warning));
+			write_bitmap_index = 0;
+		}
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	create_object_entry(sha1, type, pack_name_hash(name),
 			    exclude, name && no_try_delta(name),