From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>,
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin/pack-objects.c: introduce `pack.extraCruftTips`
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:48:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZEGlJx4ibYSp6qmD@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1qkez5yg.fsf@gitster.g>
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 12:52:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
>
> >> But it makes me wonder if it would make the life of end-users simpler
> >> if we reserve a special ref hierarchy, say "refs/crufts/*", than
> >> having to write a program for doing something like this.
> >
> > Ideally, yes. But I think there are certain instances where there are
> > far too many (disconnected) objects that creating a reference for each
> > part of the unreachable object graph that we want to keep is infeasible.
> >
> > Another way to think about pack.extraCruftTips is that the program
> > invocation is acting like the refs/crufts hierarchy would if it existed,
> > but without actually having to write all of those references down.
>
> [...] Is there a less hand-wavy use case you have in mind?
Sure. The use-case I have in mind directly is keeping certain entries
from GitHub's `audit_log` file (see a description from Peff in [1])
while excluding others.
We use the audit_log to track every single reference change, like the
reflog but with the reference name prepended to each entry and some
optional metadata attached to the end of each entry.
Our goal is to be able to prune the test-merge objects that GitHub
creates without (usually) pruning any objects that was pushed by a user.
E.g., even if a user force-pushes their branch from A to B (where B is
not strictly ahead of A) we want to keep the objects from A around, even
though a reference is no longer pointing at it.
This already works with reflogs, which are considered as reachable
objects when generating a cruft pack (that is, they go in the "big"
pack with the rest of the reachable objects. This is extending that
mechanism to work with GitHub's custom format, but doing so in a way
that is not tied to that format whatsoever.
The hope is that others may find it useful in other special
circumstances like above.
Thanks,
Taylor
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20150624094919.GC5436@peff.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-20 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-20 17:27 [PATCH] builtin/pack-objects.c: introduce `pack.extraCruftTips` Taylor Blau
2023-04-20 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-20 19:30 ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-20 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-20 20:48 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2023-04-21 0:10 ` Chris Torek
2023-04-21 2:14 ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-25 19:42 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-25 21:25 ` Taylor Blau
2023-04-26 10:52 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-05-03 0:06 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-03 0:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Taylor Blau
2023-05-03 14:01 ` Derrick Stolee
2023-05-03 19:59 ` Jeff King
2023-05-03 21:22 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-05 21:23 ` Jeff King
2023-05-06 0:06 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-06 0:14 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-03 21:28 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-05 21:26 ` Jeff King
2023-05-05 22:13 ` Jeff King
2023-05-06 0:13 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-06 0:20 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-06 2:12 ` Jeff King
2023-05-03 22:05 ` [PATCH v3] " Taylor Blau
2023-05-03 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-03 23:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-03 23:48 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-03 23:50 ` Taylor Blau
2023-05-05 21:39 ` Jeff King
2023-05-05 22:19 ` Jeff King
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