Re: [PATCH] connected.c: reprepare packs for corner cases

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 05:16:38PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> There we see that same reprepare happen in 882839, which is the child
> fetch-pack. The parent fetch probably needs to reprepare itself after
> fetch-pack completes.

Actually, it's not fetch which is running fetch-pack, but rather the
remote helper itself. So I think the simplest thing is for the
remote-helper layer to do something like this:

diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
index 20a7185ec4..25957e9a05 100644
--- a/transport-helper.c
+++ b/transport-helper.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include "refspec.h"
 #include "transport-internal.h"
 #include "protocol.h"
+#include "packfile.h"
 
 static int debug;
 
@@ -672,6 +673,7 @@ static int fetch(struct transport *transport,
 {
 	struct helper_data *data = transport->data;
 	int i, count;
+	int ret;
 
 	get_helper(transport);
 
@@ -710,13 +712,18 @@ static int fetch(struct transport *transport,
 	if (data->transport_options.negotiation_tips)
 		warning("Ignoring --negotiation-tip because the protocol does not support it.");
 
-	if (data->fetch)
-		return fetch_with_fetch(transport, nr_heads, to_fetch);
+	ret = data->fetch ? fetch_with_fetch(transport, nr_heads, to_fetch) :
+	      data->import ? fetch_with_import(transport, nr_heads, to_fetch) :
+	      -1;
 
-	if (data->import)
-		return fetch_with_import(transport, nr_heads, to_fetch);
+	/*
+	 * We may have just received a pack through the helper sub-process;
+	 * refresh the pack list.
+	 */
+	if (!ret)
+		reprepare_packed_git(the_repository);
 
-	return -1;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int push_update_ref_status(struct strbuf *buf,