$GIT_DIR/objects/pack may be removed to save inodes in shared
repositories. Quiet down prune in cases where either
$GIT_DIR/objects or $GIT_DIR/objects/pack is non-existent,
but emit the system error in other cases to help users diagnose
permissions problems or resource constraints.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove untracked files that are unwanted after they are done being used.
While the set of cases in this patch is certainly far from
comprehensive, it was motivated by some work to see what the fallout
would be if we were to make the removal of untracked files as a side
effect of other commands into an error. Some cases were a bit more
involved than the testcase changes included in this patch, but the ones
included here represent the simple cases. While this patch is not that
important since we are not changing the behavior of those other commands
into an error in the near term, I thought these changes were useful
anyway as an explicit documentation of the intent that these untracked
files are no longer useful.
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Preliminary clean-up of tests before the main reftable changes
hits the codebase.
* hn/prep-tests-for-reftable: (22 commits)
t1415: set REFFILES for test specific to storage format
t4202: mark bogus head hash test with REFFILES
t7003: check reflog existence only for REFFILES
t7900: stop checking for loose refs
t1404: mark tests that muck with .git directly as REFFILES.
t2017: mark --orphan/logAllRefUpdates=false test as REFFILES
t1414: mark corruption test with REFFILES
t1407: require REFFILES for for_each_reflog test
test-lib: provide test prereq REFFILES
t5304: use "reflog expire --all" to clear the reflog
t5304: restyle: trim empty lines, drop ':' before >
t7003: use rev-parse rather than FS inspection
t5000: inspect HEAD using git-rev-parse
t5000: reformat indentation to the latest fashion
t1301: fix typo in error message
t1413: use tar to save and restore entire .git directory
t1401-symbolic-ref: avoid direct filesystem access
t1401: use tar to snapshot and restore repo state
t5601: read HEAD using rev-parse
t9300: check ref existence using test-helper rather than a file system check
...
This test checks that unreachable objects are really removed. For the test to
work, it has to ensure that no reflog retain any reachable objects.
Previously, it did this by manipulating the file system to remove reflog in the
first test, and relying on git not updating the reflog if the relevant logfile
doesn't exist in follow-up tests.
Now, explicitly clear the reflog using 'reflog expire'. This reduces the
dependency between test functions. It also is more amenable to use with
reftable, which has no concept of (non)-existence of a reflog
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We pass our prune expiration to mark_reachable_objects(), which will
traverse not only the reachable objects, but consider any recent ones as
tips for reachability; see d3038d22f9 (prune: keep objects reachable
from recent objects, 2014-10-15) for details.
However, this interacts badly with the bitmap code path added in
fde67d6896 (prune: use bitmaps for reachability traversal, 2019-02-13).
If we hit the bitmap-optimized path, we return immediately to avoid the
regular traversal, accidentally skipping the "also traverse recent"
code.
Instead, we should do an if-else for the bitmap versus regular
traversal, and then follow up with the "recent" traversal in either
case. This reuses the "rev_info" for a bitmap and then a regular
traversal, but that should work OK (the bitmap code clears the pending
array in the usual way, just like a regular traversal would).
Note that I dropped the comment above the regular traversal here. It
has little explanatory value, and makes the if-else logic much harder to
read.
Here are a few variants that I rejected:
- it seems like both the reachability and recent traversals could be
done in a single traversal. This was rejected by d3038d22f9 (prune:
keep objects reachable from recent objects, 2014-10-15), though the
balance may be different when using bitmaps. However, there's a
subtle correctness issue, too: we use revs->ignore_missing_links for
the recent traversal, but not the reachability one.
- we could try using bitmaps for the recent traversal, too, which
could possibly improve performance. But it would require some fixes
in the bitmap code, which uses ignore_missing_links for its own
purposes. Plus it would probably not help all that much in practice.
We use the reachable tips to generate bitmaps, so those objects are
likely not covered by bitmaps (unless they just became unreachable).
And in general, we expect the set of unreachable objects to be much
smaller anyway, so there's less to gain.
The test in t5304 detects the bug and confirms the fix.
I also beefed up the tests in t6501, which covers the mtime-checking
code more thoroughly, to handle the bitmap case (in addition to just
"loose" and "packed" cases). Interestingly, this test doesn't actually
detect the bug, because it is running "git gc", and not "prune"
directly. And "gc" will call "repack" first, which does not suffer the
same bug. So the old-but-reachable-from-recent objects get scooped up
into the new pack along with the actually-recent objects, which gives
both a recent mtime. But it seemed prudent to get more coverage of the
bitmap case for related code.
Reported-by: David Emett <dave@sp4m.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Carefully excluding t5310, which is developed independently of the
current patch series at the time of writing, we now use `main` as
default branch in t5[0-4]*. This trick was performed via
$ (cd t &&
sed -i -e 's/master/main/g' -e 's/MASTER/MAIN/g' \
-e 's/Master/Main/g' -- t5[0-4]*.sh &&
git checkout HEAD -- t5310\*)
This allows us to define `GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main`
for those tests.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to the manual adjustment to let the `linux-gcc` CI job run
the test suite with `master` and then with `main`, this patch makes sure
that GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME is set in all test scripts
that currently rely on the initial branch name being `master by default.
To determine which test scripts to mark up, the first step was to
force-set the default branch name to `master` in
- all test scripts that contain the keyword `master`,
- t4211, which expects `t/t4211/history.export` with a hard-coded ref to
initialize the default branch,
- t5560 because it sources `t/t556x_common` which uses `master`,
- t8002 and t8012 because both source `t/annotate-tests.sh` which also
uses `master`)
This trick was performed by this command:
$ sed -i '/^ *\. \.\/\(test-lib\|lib-\(bash\|cvs\|git-svn\)\|gitweb-lib\)\.sh$/i\
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=master\
export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME\
' $(git grep -l master t/t[0-9]*.sh) \
t/t4211*.sh t/t5560*.sh t/t8002*.sh t/t8012*.sh
After that, careful, manual inspection revealed that some of the test
scripts containing the needle `master` do not actually rely on a
specific default branch name: either they mention `master` only in a
comment, or they initialize that branch specificially, or they do not
actually refer to the current default branch. Therefore, the
aforementioned modification was undone in those test scripts thusly:
$ git checkout HEAD -- \
t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh t/t0060-path-utils.sh \
t/t1011-read-tree-sparse-checkout.sh \
t/t1305-config-include.sh t/t1309-early-config.sh \
t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh t/t1450-fsck.sh \
t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh \
t/t2106-update-index-assume-unchanged.sh \
t/t3040-subprojects-basic.sh t/t3301-notes.sh \
t/t3308-notes-merge.sh t/t3423-rebase-reword.sh \
t/t3436-rebase-more-options.sh \
t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh t/t4257-am-interactive.sh \
t/t5323-pack-redundant.sh t/t5401-update-hooks.sh \
t/t5511-refspec.sh t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh \
t/t5529-push-errors.sh t/t5530-upload-pack-error.sh \
t/t5548-push-porcelain.sh \
t/t5552-skipping-fetch-negotiator.sh \
t/t5572-pull-submodule.sh t/t5608-clone-2gb.sh \
t/t5614-clone-submodules-shallow.sh \
t/t7508-status.sh t/t7606-merge-custom.sh \
t/t9302-fast-import-unpack-limit.sh
We excluded one set of test scripts in these commands, though: the range
of `git p4` tests. The reason? `git p4` stores the (foreign) remote
branch in the branch called `p4/master`, which is obviously not the
default branch. Manual analysis revealed that only five of these tests
actually require a specific default branch name to pass; They were
modified thusly:
$ sed -i '/^ *\. \.\/lib-git-p4\.sh$/i\
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=master\
export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME\
' t/t980[0167]*.sh t/t9811*.sh
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit fde67d6896 (prune: use bitmaps for reachability traversal,
2019-02-13) uses bitmaps for pruning when they're available, but only
covers this functionality in the t/perf tests. This makes a kind of
sense, since the point is that the behaviour is indistinguishable before
and after the patch, just faster.
But since the bitmap code path is not exercised at all in the regular
test suite, it leaves us open to a regression where the behavior does in
fact change. The most thorough way to test that would be running the
whole suite with bitmaps enabled. But we don't yet have a way to do
that, and anyway it's expensive to do so. Let's at least add a basic
test that exercises this path and make sure we prune an object we should
(and not one that we shouldn't).
That would hopefully catch the most obvious breakages early.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let's make the script less jarring to read in a post-sha1 world by
using more hash-agnostic variable names.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The general strategy of "git prune" is to do a full reachability walk,
then for each loose object see if we found it in our walk. But if we
don't have any loose objects, we don't need to do the expensive walk in
the first place.
This patch postpones that walk until the first time we need to see its
results.
Note that this is really a specific case of a more general optimization,
which is that we could traverse only far enough to find the object under
consideration (i.e., stop the traversal when we find it, then pick up
again when asked about the next object, etc). That could save us in some
instances from having to do a full walk. But it's actually a bit tricky
to do with our traversal code, and you'd need to do a full walk anyway
if you have even a single unreachable object (which you generally do, if
any objects are actually left after running git-repack).
So in practice this lazy-load of the full walk catches one easy but
common case (i.e., you've just repacked via git-gc, and there's nothing
unreachable).
The perf script is fairly contrived, but it does show off the
improvement:
Test HEAD^ HEAD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
5304.4: prune with no objects 3.66(3.60+0.05) 0.00(0.00+0.00) -100.0%
and would let us know if we accidentally regress this optimization.
Note also that we need to take special care with prune_shallow(), which
relies on us having performed the traversal. So this optimization can
only kick in for a non-shallow repository. Since this is easy to get
wrong and is not covered by existing tests, let's add an extra test to
t5304 that covers this case explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using 'test_must_be_empty' is shorter and more idiomatic than
>empty &&
test_cmp empty out
as it saves the creation of an empty file. Furthermore, sometimes the
expected empty file doesn't have such a descriptive name like 'empty',
and its creation is far away from the place where it's finally used
for comparison (e.g. in 't7600-merge.sh', where two expected empty
files are created in the 'setup' test, but are used only about 500
lines later).
These cases were found by instrumenting 'test_cmp' to error out the
test script when it's used to compare empty files, and then converted
manually.
Note that even after this patch there still remain a lot of cases
where we use 'test_cmp' to check empty files:
- Sometimes the expected output is not hard-coded in the test, but
'test_cmp' is used to ensure that two similar git commands produce
the same output, and that output happens to be empty, e.g. the
test 'submodule update --merge - ignores --merge for new
submodules' in 't7406-submodule-update.sh'.
- Repetitive common tasks, including preparing the expected results
and running 'test_cmp', are often extracted into a helper
function, and some of this helper's callsites expect no output.
- For the same reason as above, the whole 'test_expect_success'
block is within a helper function, e.g. in 't3070-wildmatch.sh'.
- Or 'test_cmp' is invoked in a loop, e.g. the test 'cvs update
(-p)' in 't9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git gc --prune=nonsense" spent long time repacking and then
silently failed when underlying "git prune --expire=nonsense"
failed to parse its command line. This has been corrected.
* jc/parseopt-expiry-errors:
parseopt: handle malformed --expire arguments more nicely
gc: do not upcase error message shown with die()
A few commands that parse --expire=<time> command line option behave
sillily when given nonsense input. For example
$ git prune --no-expire
Segmentation falut
$ git prune --expire=npw; echo $?
129
Both come from parse_opt_expiry_date_cb().
The former is because the function is not prepared to see arg==NULL
(for "--no-expire", it is a norm; "--expire" at the end of the
command line could be made to pass NULL, if it is told that the
argument is optional, but we don't so we do not have to worry about
that case).
The latter is because it does not check the value returned from the
underlying parse_expiry_date().
This seems to be a recent regression introduced while we attempted
to avoid spewing the entire usage message when given a correct
option but with an invalid value at 3bb0923f ("parse-options: do not
show usage upon invalid option value", 2018-03-22). Before that, we
didn't fail silently but showed a full usage help (which arguably is
not all that better).
Also catch this error early when "git gc --prune=<expiration>" is
misspelled by doing a dummy parsing before the main body of "gc"
that is time consuming even begins. Otherwise, we'd spend time to
pack objects and then later have "git prune" first notice the error.
Aborting "gc" in the middle that way is not harmful but is ugly and
can be avoided.
Helped-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note that add_other_reflogs_to_pending() is a bit inefficient, since
it scans reflog for all refs of each worktree, including shared refs,
so the shared ref's reflog is scanned over and over again.
We could update refs API to pass "per-worktree only" flag to avoid
that. But long term we should be able to obtain a "per-worktree only"
ref store and would need to revert the changes in reflog iteration
API. So let's just wait until then.
add_reflogs_to_pending() is called by reachable.c so by default "git
prune" will examine reflog from all worktrees.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unless single_worktree is set, --all now adds HEAD from all worktrees.
Since reachable.c code does not use setup_revisions(), we need to call
other_head_refs_submodule() explicitly there to have the same effect on
"git prune", so that we won't accidentally delete objects needed by some
other HEADs.
A new FIXME is added because we would need something like
int refs_other_head_refs(struct ref_store *, each_ref_fn, cb_data);
in addition to other_head_refs() to handle it, which might require
int get_submodule_worktrees(const char *submodule, int flags);
It could be a separate topic to reduce the scope of this one.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the result of single_worktree flag never being set (no way to up
until now). To get objects from current index only, set single_worktree.
The other add_index_objects_to_pending's caller is mark_reachable_objects()
(e.g. "git prune") which also mark objects from all indexes.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/`(.+?)`/\$(\1)/smg' "${_f}"
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a custom report_garbage handler to collect and remove
garbage .idx files from the pack directory.
Signed-off-by: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pack garbage, noticeably stale .idx files, can be cleaned up during
a garbage collection. This tests to ensure such garbage is properly
cleaned up.
Note that the prior test for checking pack garbage with count-objects
left some stale garbage after the test exited. This has also been
corrected.
Signed-off-by: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When for_each_packed_object is called, we call
prepare_packed_git() to make sure we have the actual list of
packs. But the latter does not actually open the pack
indices, meaning that pack->nr_objects may simply be 0 if
the pack has not otherwise been used since the program
started.
In practice, this didn't come up for the current callers,
because they iterate the packed objects only after iterating
all reachable objects (so for it to matter you would have to
have a pack consisting only of unreachable objects). But it
is a dangerous and confusing interface that should be fixed
for future callers.
Note that we do not end the iteration when a pack cannot be
opened, but we do return an error. That lets you complete
the iteration even in actively-repacked repository where an
.idx file may racily go away, but it also lets callers know
that they may not have gotten the complete list (which the
current reachability-check caller does care about).
We have to tweak one of the prune tests due to the changed
return value; an earlier test creates bogus .idx files and
does not clean them up. Having to make this tweak is a good
thing; it means we will not prune in a broken repository,
and the test confirms that we do not negatively impact a
more lenient caller, count-objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The string in 'base' contains a path suffix to a specific object;
when its value is used, the suffix must either be filled (as in
stat_sha1_file, open_sha1_file, check_and_freshen_nonlocal) or
cleared (as in prepare_packed_git) to avoid junk at the end.
660c889e (sha1_file: add for_each iterators for loose and packed
objects, 2014-10-15) introduced loose_from_alt_odb(), but this did
neither and treated 'base' as a complete path to the "base" object
directory, instead of a pointer to the "base" of the full path
string.
The trailing path after 'base' is still initialized to NUL, hiding
the bug in some common cases. Additionally the descendent
for_each_file_in_obj_subdir() function swallows ENOENT, so an error
only shows if the alternate's path was last filled with a valid
object (where statting /path/to/existing/00/0bjectfile/00 fails).
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Mah <me@JonathonMah.com>
Helped-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For small outputs, we sometimes use:
test "$(some_cmd)" = "something we expect"
instead of a full test_cmp. The downside of this is that
when it fails, there is no output at all from the script.
Let's introduce a small helper to make tests easier to
debug.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is slightly more robust (checking "! test -f" would not
notice a directory of the same name, though that is not
likely to happen here). It also makes debugging easier, as
the test script will output a message on failure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
HEAD is not explicitly used as a starting commit for
calculating reachability, so if it's detached and reflogs
are disabled it may be pruned.
Add tests which demonstrate it. Test 'prune: prune former HEAD after checking
out branch' also reverts changes to repository.
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch teaches "prune" to remove shallow roots that are no longer
reachable from any refs (e.g. when the relevant refs are removed).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
prepare_packed_git_one() is modified to allow count-objects to hook a
report function to so we don't need to duplicate the pack searching
logic in count-objects.c. When report_pack_garbage is NULL, the
overhead is insignificant.
The garbage is reported with warning() instead of error() in packed
garbage case because it's not an error to have garbage. Loose garbage
is still reported as errors and will be converted to warnings later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On systems where the local time and file modification time may be out of
sync (e.g. test directory on NFS) t3306 and t5305 can fail because prune
compares times such as "now" (client time) with file modification times
(server times for remote file systems). I.e., these are spurious test
failures.
Avoid this by setting the relevant modification times to the local time.
Noticed on a system with as little as 2s time skew.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, prune treated an expiration time of 0 to mean that no
expire argument was supplied, and everything should be pruned. As a
result, "prune --expire=never" would prune all unreachable objects,
regardless of their timestamp.
prune can be called with --expire=never automatically by gc, when the
gc.pruneExpire configuration is set to "never".
Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <simpkins@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test the effect of an earlier change by f7835a2 (preserve mtime of local
clone, 2009-09-12) to keep stale loose object files stale in the new
repository when a local clone is made by copying files in .git/
directory.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With this patch, "git gc --no-prune" will not prune any loose (and
dangling) object, and "git gc --prune=5.minutes.ago" will prune
all loose objects older than 5 minutes.
This patch benefitted from suggestions by Thomas Rast and Jan Krï¿œger.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test-chmtime can adjust the mtime of a file based on the file's mtime, or
based on the system time. For files accessed over NFS, the file's mtime is
set by the NFS server, and as such may vary a great deal from the NFS
client's system time if the clocks of the client and server are out of
sync. Since these tests are testing the expire feature of git-prune, an
incorrect mtime could cause a file to be expired or not expired incorrectly
and produce a test failure.
Avoid this NFS pitfall by modifying the calls to test-chmtime so that the
mtime is adjusted based on the system time, rather than the file's mtime.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Finally, this resurrects the documented behaviour to protect other
objects listed on the command line from getting pruned.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems that git prune changed behaviour with respect to revisions added
from command line, probably when it became a builtin. Currently, it prints
a short usage and exits: instead, it should take those revisions into
account and not prune them. So add a couple of test to point this out.
We'll be fixing this by switching to parse_options(), so add tests to
detect bogus command line parameters as well, to keep ourselves from
introducing regressions.
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only reason we did not call "prune" in git-gc was that it is an
inherently dangerous operation: if there is a commit going on, you will
prune loose objects that were just created, and are, in fact, needed by the
commit object just about to be created.
Since it is dangerous, we told users so. That led to many users not even
daring to run it when it was actually safe. Besides, they are users, and
should not have to remember such details as when to call git-gc with
--prune, or to call git-prune directly.
Of course, the consequence was that "git gc --auto" gets triggered much
more often than we would like, since unreferenced loose objects (such as
left-overs from a rebase or a reset --hard) were never pruned.
Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire <minimum-age>, which
makes it a much safer operation. This allows us to call prune from git-gc,
with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose objects (this
value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a safe one).
If you want to override this grace period, just set the config variable
gc.pruneExpire to a different value; an example would be
[gc]
pruneExpire = 6.months.ago
or even "never", if you feel really paranoid.
Note that this new behaviour makes "--prune" be a no-op.
While adding a test to t5304-prune.sh (since it really tests the implicit
call to "prune"), also the original test for "prune --expire" was moved
there from t1410-reflog.sh, where it did not belong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Write errors when repacking (eg, due to out-of-space conditions)
can leave temporary packs (and possibly other files beginning
with "tmp_") lying around which no existing
codepath removes and which aren't obvious to the casual user.
These can also be multi-megabyte files wasting noticeable space.
Unfortunately there's no way to definitely tell in builtin-prune
that a tmp_ file is not being used by a concurrent process,
such as a fetch. However, it is documented that pruning should
only be done on a quiet repository and --expire is honoured
(using code from Johannes Schindelin, along with a test case
he wrote) so that its safety is the same as that of loose
object pruning.
Since they might be signs of a problem (unlike orphaned loose
objects) the names of any removed files are printed.
Signed-off-by: David Tweed (david.tweed@gmail.com)
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
