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From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff Kind <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix gc failure when a remote HEAD goes stale
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:57:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1444139796.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr3lnuzqu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

There has been a report in the Git for Windows project that gc fails
sometimes: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/423

It turns out that there are cases when a remote HEAD can go stale and
it is not the user's fault at all. It can happen, for example, if the
active branch in the remote repository gets renamed.

Thanks to Junio and Peff for their really valuable sanity check.

Interdiff re: v2 after the diffstat (3/4 and 4/4 were dropped, I am
no longer removing the broken symrefs).


Johannes Schindelin (2):
  gc: demonstrate failure with stale remote HEAD
  pack-objects: do not get distracted by broken symrefs

 reachable.c   |  8 +++++++-
 t/t6500-gc.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/prune.c b/builtin/prune.c
index 337b12a..10b03d3 100644
--- a/builtin/prune.c
+++ b/builtin/prune.c
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 #include "reachable.h"
 #include "parse-options.h"
 #include "progress.h"
-#include "refs.h"
 
 static const char * const prune_usage[] = {
 	N_("git prune [-n] [-v] [--expire <time>] [--] [<head>...]"),
@@ -101,7 +100,6 @@ static void remove_temporary_files(const char *path)
 int cmd_prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
 	struct rev_info revs;
-	struct string_list broken_symrefs = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
 	struct progress *progress = NULL;
 	const struct option options[] = {
 		OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only, N_("do not remove, show only")),
@@ -112,7 +110,6 @@ int cmd_prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		OPT_END()
 	};
 	char *s;
-	int i;
 
 	expire = ULONG_MAX;
 	save_commit_buffer = 0;
@@ -139,14 +136,7 @@ int cmd_prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (show_progress)
 		progress = start_progress_delay(_("Checking connectivity"), 0, 0, 2);
 
-	revs.ignore_missing = 1;
-	mark_reachable_objects(&revs, 1, expire, progress, &broken_symrefs);
-	for (i = 0; i < broken_symrefs.nr; i++) {
-		char *path = broken_symrefs.items[i].string;
-		printf("Removing stale ref %s\n", path);
-		if (!show_only && delete_ref(path, NULL, REF_NODEREF))
-			die("Could not remove stale ref %s", path);
-	}
+	mark_reachable_objects(&revs, 1, expire, progress);
 	stop_progress(&progress);
 	for_each_loose_file_in_objdir(get_object_directory(), prune_object,
 				      prune_cruft, prune_subdir, NULL);
diff --git a/builtin/reflog.c b/builtin/reflog.c
index cb8758a..f96ca2a 100644
--- a/builtin/reflog.c
+++ b/builtin/reflog.c
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ static int cmd_reflog_expire(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		init_revisions(&cb.cmd.revs, prefix);
 		if (flags & EXPIRE_REFLOGS_VERBOSE)
 			printf("Marking reachable objects...");
-		mark_reachable_objects(&cb.cmd.revs, 0, 0, NULL, NULL);
+		mark_reachable_objects(&cb.cmd.revs, 0, 0, NULL);
 		if (flags & EXPIRE_REFLOGS_VERBOSE)
 			putchar('\n');
 	}
diff --git a/reachable.c b/reachable.c
index 25c4932..43616d4 100644
--- a/reachable.c
+++ b/reachable.c
@@ -15,11 +15,6 @@ struct connectivity_progress {
 	unsigned long count;
 };
 
-struct add_one_data {
-	struct rev_info *revs;
-	struct string_list *broken_symrefs;
-};
-
 static void update_progress(struct connectivity_progress *cp)
 {
 	cp->count++;
@@ -30,19 +25,16 @@ static void update_progress(struct connectivity_progress *cp)
 static int add_one_ref(const char *path, const struct object_id *oid,
 		       int flag, void *cb_data)
 {
-	struct add_one_data *data = (struct add_one_data *)cb_data;
+	struct rev_info *revs = (struct rev_info *)cb_data;
 	struct object *object;
 
 	if ((flag & REF_ISSYMREF) && (flag & REF_ISBROKEN)) {
-		if (data->broken_symrefs)
-			string_list_append(data->broken_symrefs, path);
-		else
-			warning("ref is broken: %s", path);
+		warning("symbolic ref is dangling: %s", path);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
 	object = parse_object_or_die(oid->hash, path);
-	add_pending_object(data->revs, object, "");
+	add_pending_object(revs, object, "");
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -167,11 +159,9 @@ int add_unseen_recent_objects_to_traversal(struct rev_info *revs,
 
 void mark_reachable_objects(struct rev_info *revs, int mark_reflog,
 			    unsigned long mark_recent,
-			    struct progress *progress,
-			    struct string_list *broken_symrefs)
+			    struct progress *progress)
 {
 	struct connectivity_progress cp;
-	struct add_one_data data;
 
 	/*
 	 * Set up revision parsing, and mark us as being interested
@@ -184,14 +174,11 @@ void mark_reachable_objects(struct rev_info *revs, int mark_reflog,
 	/* Add all refs from the index file */
 	add_index_objects_to_pending(revs, 0);
 
-	data.revs = revs;
-	data.broken_symrefs = broken_symrefs;
-
 	/* Add all external refs */
-	for_each_ref(add_one_ref, &data);
+	for_each_ref(add_one_ref, revs);
 
 	/* detached HEAD is not included in the list above */
-	head_ref(add_one_ref, &data);
+	head_ref(add_one_ref, revs);
 
 	/* Add all reflog info */
 	if (mark_reflog)
diff --git a/reachable.h b/reachable.h
index 06f1400..d23efc3 100644
--- a/reachable.h
+++ b/reachable.h
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ struct progress;
 extern int add_unseen_recent_objects_to_traversal(struct rev_info *revs,
 						  unsigned long timestamp);
 extern void mark_reachable_objects(struct rev_info *revs, int mark_reflog,
-				   unsigned long mark_recent, struct progress *,
-				   struct string_list *broken_symrefs);
+				   unsigned long mark_recent, struct progress *);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/t/t6500-gc.sh b/t/t6500-gc.sh
index 0ae4271..5d7d414 100755
--- a/t/t6500-gc.sh
+++ b/t/t6500-gc.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ test_expect_success 'gc -h with invalid configuration' '
 	test_i18ngrep "[Uu]sage" broken/usage
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'gc removes broken refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' '
+test_expect_success 'gc is not aborted due to a stale symref' '
 	git init remote &&
 	(
 		cd remote &&
@@ -39,9 +39,7 @@ test_expect_success 'gc removes broken refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' '
 		git branch -m develop &&
 		cd ../client &&
 		git fetch --prune &&
-		git gc &&
-		git branch --list -r origin/HEAD >actual &&
-		test_line_count = 0 actual
+		git gc
 	)
 '
 
-- 
2.6.1.windows.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-06 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-24  9:13 [PATCH 0/4] Fix gc failure when a remote HEAD goes stale Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-24  9:13 ` [PATCH 1/4] gc: demonstrate failure with stale remote HEAD Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-24  9:13 ` [PATCH 2/4] pack-objects: do not get distracted by stale refs Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-24 17:03   ` Jeff King
2015-09-24  9:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] mark_reachable_objects(): optionally collect broken refs Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-24 17:56   ` Jeff King
2015-09-24  9:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] gc: remove " Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-24 17:57   ` Jeff King
2015-09-25  0:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-25  1:35       ` Jeff King
2015-09-28 14:01       ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Fix gc failure when a remote HEAD goes stale Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-28 14:01         ` [PATCH v2 1/4] gc: demonstrate failure with stale remote HEAD Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-28 14:01         ` [PATCH v2 2/4] pack-objects: do not get distracted by broken symrefs Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-28 14:01         ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mark_reachable_objects(): optionally collect " Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-28 14:02         ` [PATCH v2 4/4] gc: remove " Johannes Schindelin
2015-09-28 18:41           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-28 18:49             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-28 19:58               ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-05 22:06                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-28 19:03           ` Jeff King
2015-09-28 20:05             ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-06 13:57       ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2015-10-06 13:58         ` [PATCH v3 1/2] gc: demonstrate failure with stale remote HEAD Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-06 13:59         ` [PATCH v3 2/2] pack-objects: do not get distracted by broken symrefs Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-07 17:45           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-08 19:15             ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-10-08 19:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-08 20:10                 ` Johannes Schindelin

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