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Now that the rest of the MIDX subsystem and relevant callers have been
updated to learn about how to read and process incremental MIDX chains,
let's finally update the implementation in `write_midx_internal()` to be
able to write incremental MIDX chains.
This new feature is available behind the `--incremental` option for the
`multi-pack-index` builtin, like so:
$ git multi-pack-index write --incremental
The implementation for doing so is relatively straightforward, and boils
down to a handful of different kinds of changes implemented in this
patch:
- The `compute_sorted_entries()` function is taught to reject objects
which appear in any existing MIDX layer.
- Functions like `write_midx_revindex()` are adjusted to write
pack_order values which are offset by the number of objects in the
base MIDX layer.
- The end of `write_midx_internal()` is adjusted to move
non-incremental MIDX files when necessary (i.e. when creating an
incremental chain with an existing non-incremental MIDX in the
repository).
There are a handful of other changes that are introduced, like new
functions to clear incremental MIDX files that are unrelated to the
current chain (using the same "keep_hash" mechanism as in the
non-incremental case).
The tests explicitly exercising the new incremental MIDX feature are
relatively limited for two reasons:
1. Most of the "interesting" behavior is already thoroughly covered in
t5319-multi-pack-index.sh, which handles the core logic of reading
objects through a MIDX.
The new tests in t5334-incremental-multi-pack-index.sh are mostly
focused on creating and destroying incremental MIDXs, as well as
stitching their results together across layers.
2. A new GIT_TEST environment variable is added called
"GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_INCREMENTAL", which modifies the
entire test suite to write incremental MIDXs after repacking when
combined with the "GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX" variable.
This exercises the long tail of other interesting behavior that is
defined implicitly throughout the rest of the CI suite. It is
likewise added to the linux-TEST-vars job.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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