Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2025, #09; Wed, 20)

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:05:26 +0200

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 04:44:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> * ps/reftable-libgit2-cleanup (2025-08-12) 8 commits
>  - refs/reftable: always reload stacks when creating lock
>  - reftable: don't second-guess errors from flock interface
>  - reftable/stack: handle outdated stacks when compacting
>  - reftable/stack: allow passing flags to `reftable_stack_add()`
>  - reftable/stack: fix compiler warning due to missing braces
>  - reftable/stack: reorder code to avoid forward declarations
>  - reftable/writer: drop Git-specific `QSORT()` macro
>  - reftable/writer: fix type used for number of records
> 
>  Code clean-ups.
> 
>  Will merge to 'next'?
>  source: <[email-masked]>

Yeah, let's merge it down. There's been a couple of reviews for previous
versions, all of which only required minor changes, and the current
version was ACK'd by Justin.

> * ps/object-store-midx-dedup-info (2025-08-11) 11 commits
>  - midx: compute paths via their source
>  - midx: stop duplicating info redundant with its owning source
>  - midx: write multi-pack indices via their source
>  - midx: load multi-pack indices via their source
>  - midx: drop redundant `struct repository` parameter
>  - odb: simplify calling `link_alt_odb_entry()`
>  - odb: return newly created in-memory sources
>  - odb: consistently use "dir" to refer to alternate's directory
>  - odb: allow `odb_find_source()` to fail
>  - odb: store locality in object database sources
>  - Merge branch 'ps/object-store-midx' into ps/object-store-midx-dedup-info
> 
>  Further code clean-up for multi-pack-index code paths.
> 
>  Will merge to 'next'?
>  source: <[email-masked]>

There's still an outstanding question for Stolee [1] regarding the
`--object-dir` option of git-multi-pack-index(1). It would be nice to
give him a copule of days more to chime in. I've Cc'd him now.

[1]: <aJUn0qeliNQ/[email-masked]>

Patrick