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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2018-05-02 17:20:08 -0400
committerLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2018-05-21 23:55:12 -0400
commit159e7b080bfa5d34559467cacaa79df89a01afc0 (patch)
treee817b315f54815ae03931f46e6690630aa12ca09 /tmp-objdir.h
parentfsck: actually fsck blob data (diff)
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fsck: detect gitmodules files
In preparation for performing fsck checks on .gitmodules files, this commit plumbs in the actual detection of the files. Note that unlike most other fsck checks, this cannot be a property of a single object: we must know that the object is found at a ".gitmodules" path at the root tree of a commit. Since the fsck code only sees one object at a time, we have to mark the related objects to fit the puzzle together. When we see a commit we mark its tree as a root tree, and when we see a root tree with a .gitmodules file, we mark the corresponding blob to be checked. In an ideal world, we'd check the objects in topological order: commits followed by trees followed by blobs. In that case we can avoid ever loading an object twice, since all markings would be complete by the time we get to the marked objects. And indeed, if we are checking a single packfile, this is the order in which Git will generally write the objects. But we can't count on that: 1. git-fsck may show us the objects in arbitrary order (loose objects are fed in sha1 order, but we may also have multiple packs, and we process each pack fully in sequence). 2. The type ordering is just what git-pack-objects happens to write now. The pack format does not require a specific order, and it's possible that future versions of Git (or a custom version trying to fool official Git's fsck checks!) may order it differently. 3. We may not even be fscking all of the relevant objects at once. Consider pushing with transfer.fsckObjects, where one push adds a blob at path "foo", and then a second push adds the same blob at path ".gitmodules". The blob is not part of the second push at all, but we need to mark and check it. So in the general case, we need to make up to three passes over the objects: once to make sure we've seen all commits, then once to cover any trees we might have missed, and then a final pass to cover any .gitmodules blobs we found in the second pass. We can simplify things a bit by loosening the requirement that we find .gitmodules only at root trees. Technically a file like "subdir/.gitmodules" is not parsed by Git, but it's not unreasonable for us to declare that Git is aware of all ".gitmodules" files and make them eligible for checking. That lets us drop the root-tree requirement, which eliminates one pass entirely. And it makes our worst case much better: instead of potentially queueing every root tree to be re-examined, the worst case is that we queue each unique .gitmodules blob for a second look. This patch just adds the boilerplate to find .gitmodules files. The actual content checks will come in a subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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