Subject: [PATCH v3 13/13] pack-objects: allow --shallow and --path-walk

From: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 18:12:03 +0000

From: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>

There does not appear to be anything particularly incompatible about the
--shallow and --path-walk options of 'git pack-objects'. If shallow
commits are to be handled differently, then it is by the revision walk
that defines the commit set and which are interesting or uninteresting.

However, before the previous change, a trivial removal of the warning
would cause a failure in t5500-fetch-pack.sh when
GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK is enabled. The shallow fetch would provide more
objects than we desired, due to some incorrect behavior of the path-walk
API, especially around walking uninteresting objects.

The recently-added tests in t5538-push-shallow.sh help to confirm this
behavior is working with the --path-walk option if
GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK is enabled. These tests passed previously due to
the --path-walk feature being disabled in the presence of a shallow
clone.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/pack-objects.c  |  5 ++---
 t/t5538-push-shallow.sh | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index df3cca0a668a..a87546530632 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ static int keep_unreachable, unpack_unreachable, include_tag;
 static timestamp_t unpack_unreachable_expiration;
 static int pack_loose_unreachable;
 static int cruft;
+static int shallow = 0;
 static timestamp_t cruft_expiration;
 static int local;
 static int have_non_local_packs;
@@ -4490,6 +4491,7 @@ static void get_object_list_path_walk(struct rev_info *revs)
 	 * base objects.
 	 */
 	info.prune_all_uninteresting = sparse;
+	info.edge_aggressive = shallow;
 
 	trace2_region_enter("pack-objects", "path-walk", revs->repo);
 	result = walk_objects_by_path(&info);
@@ -4695,7 +4697,6 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc,
 		     struct repository *repo UNUSED)
 {
 	int use_internal_rev_list = 0;
-	int shallow = 0;
 	int all_progress_implied = 0;
 	struct strvec rp = STRVEC_INIT;
 	int rev_list_unpacked = 0, rev_list_all = 0, rev_list_reflog = 0;
@@ -4881,8 +4882,6 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc,
 			option = "--filter";
 		else if (use_delta_islands)
 			option = "--delta-islands";
-		else if (shallow)
-			option = "--shallow";
 
 		if (option) {
 			warning(_("cannot use %s with %s"),
diff --git a/t/t5538-push-shallow.sh b/t/t5538-push-shallow.sh
index c406f9d7ed5f..dc0e972943a6 100755
--- a/t/t5538-push-shallow.sh
+++ b/t/t5538-push-shallow.sh
@@ -153,7 +153,15 @@ test_expect_success 'push new commit from shallow clone has good deltas' '
 
 	# If the delta base is found, then this message uses "bytes".
 	# If the delta base is not found, then this message uses "KiB".
-	test_grep "Writing objects: .* bytes" err
+	test_grep "Writing objects: .* bytes" err &&
+
+	git -C deltas commit --amend -m "changed message" &&
+	GIT_TRACE2_EVENT="$(pwd)/config-push.txt" \
+	GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY=0 git -C deltas -c pack.usePathWalk=true \
+		push --progress -f origin deltas 2>err &&
+
+	test_grep "Enumerating objects: 1, done" err &&
+	test_region pack-objects path-walk config-push.txt
 '
 
 test_done
-- 
gitgitgadget