Subject: [GSoC PATCH v5 0/6] preserve promisor files content after repack

From: LorenzoPegorari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:54:44 +0200

The goal of this patch is to solve the NEEDSWORK comment added by
5374a290 (fetch-pack: write fetched refs to .promisor, 14/10/2019). This
is done by adding a helper function that takes the content of all
.promisor files in the `repository`, and copies it inside the first
.promisor file created by the repack.

Also, I added a comment explaining what is the purpose of the content of
the .promisor files, since this wasn't explained anywhere (I found
information regarding this only in the message of the previously cited
commit).

Finally, I added some tests to "t7700-repack.sh" and
"t7703-repack-geometric.sh" that check if the content of .promisor files
are correctly copied into the .promisor files created by a repack.

If Eric Sunshine, Tian Yuchen (for the patch 2/5 "pack-write: add helper
to fill promisor file after repack") and Junio Hamano (for all patches)
want to be added with a `<Reviewed-by>` tag, please let me know (and, of
course, thanks a lot for the help)!

V5 DIFF:
 * fixed commit message (from `pack-write:` to `repack-promisor:`).
 * fixed timestamp `fprintf()` format.

LorenzoPegorari (6):
  pack-write: add explanation to promisor file content
  repack-promisor add helper to fill promisor file after repack
  repack-promisor: preserve content of promisor files after repack
  t7700: test for promisor file content after repack
  t7703: test for promisor file content after geometric repack
  repack-promisor: add missing headers

 Documentation/git-repack.adoc |   4 +-
 pack-write.c                  |   9 ++
 repack-promisor.c             | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 t/t7700-repack.sh             |  60 ++++++++++++++
 t/t7703-repack-geometric.sh   |  33 ++++++++
 5 files changed, 243 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Range-diff against v4:
1:  b4990fcdf0 = 1:  b4990fcdf0 pack-write: add explanation to promisor file content
2:  34c4e79311 ! 2:  3558bb3895 pack-write: add helper to fill promisor file after repack
    @@ Metadata
     Author: LorenzoPegorari <[email-masked]>
     
      ## Commit message ##
    -    pack-write: add helper to fill promisor file after repack
    +    repack-promisor add helper to fill promisor file after repack
     
         A ".promisor" file may contain ref names (and their associated hashes)
         that were fetched at the time the corresponding packfile was downloaded.
    @@ repack-promisor.c: static int write_oid(const struct object_id *oid,
     +
     +			/* If <time> doesn't exist, retrieve it and add it to line */
     +			if (line_sections.nr < 3)
    -+				strbuf_addf(&line, " %lld", (long long int)source_stat.st_mtim.tv_sec);
    ++				strbuf_addf(&line, " %" PRItime, (timestamp_t)source_stat.st_mtime);
     +
     +			/*
     +			 * Add the finalized line to dest_to_write and dest_content if it
3:  72ef2378b9 = 3:  b483be7558 repack-promisor: preserve content of promisor files after repack
4:  0aceaed480 = 4:  f631993c89 t7700: test for promisor file content after repack
5:  d9f6341481 = 5:  ab307e68fe t7703: test for promisor file content after geometric repack
-:  ---------- > 6:  e8720aaf12 repack-promisor: add missing headers
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