Subject: [PATCH v3 26/26] pack-objects: double-check options before discarding objects

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:44:54 -0400

When we are given an expiration time like
--unpack-unreachable=2.weeks.ago, we avoid writing out old,
unreachable loose objects entirely, under the assumption
that running "prune" would simply delete them immediately
anyway. However, this is only valid if we computed the same
set of reachable objects as prune would.

In practice, this is the case, because only git-repack uses
the --unpack-unreachable option with an expiration, and it
always feeds as many objects into the pack as possible. But
we can double-check at runtime just to be sure.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/pack-objects.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index 0cf95c9..64123d4 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -2757,6 +2757,8 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	if (keep_unreachable && unpack_unreachable)
 		die("--keep-unreachable and --unpack-unreachable are incompatible.");
+	if (!rev_list_all || !rev_list_reflog || !rev_list_index)
+		unpack_unreachable_expiration = 0;
 
 	if (!use_internal_rev_list || !pack_to_stdout || is_repository_shallow())
 		use_bitmap_index = 0;
-- 
2.1.2.596.g7379948