pack-objects: enable --path-walk via config

Users may want to enable the --path-walk option for 'git pack-objects' by
default, especially underneath commands like 'git push' or 'git repack'.

This should be limited to client repositories, since the --path-walk option
disables bitmap walks, so would be bad to include in Git servers when
serving fetches and clones. There is potential that it may be helpful to
consider when repacking the repository, to take advantage of improved deltas
across historical versions of the same files.

Much like how "pack.useSparse" was introduced and included in
"feature.experimental" before being enabled by default, use the repository
settings infrastructure to make the new "pack.usePathWalk" config enabled by
"feature.experimental" and "feature.manyFiles".

In order to test that this config works, add a new trace2 region around
the path walk code that can be checked by a 'git push' command.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Derrick Stolee
2025-05-16 18:11:58 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 5f711504d9
commit 4f7f571204
6 changed files with 32 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct repo_settings {
enum untracked_cache_setting core_untracked_cache;
int pack_use_sparse;
int pack_use_path_walk;
enum fetch_negotiation_setting fetch_negotiation_algorithm;
int core_multi_pack_index;