Re: [PATCH] pack-refs: remove newly empty directories

[Greg Price <price@ksplice.com>]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Will this keep refs/heads/p/q that is empty after packing p/q/r/s branch
> that happens to be the only branch whose name begins with p/?
>
> I do not want a careless loop that will remove refs/heads after packing
> "master" that happens to be the only local branch, but still...

It will.  I could fix that with something like this (untested):

/* Remove empty parents, but spare refs/ and immediate subdirs.
   Note, munges *name. */
static void try_remove_empty_parents(char *name)
{
  char *p, *q;
  int i;
  p = name;
  for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { /* refs/{heads,tags,...}/ */
    while (*p && *p != '/')
      p++;
    if (*p)
      p++;
  }
  for (q = p; *q; q++)
    ;
  while (1) {
    for ( ; q > p && *q != '/'; q--)
      ;
    if (q == p)
      break;
    *q = '\0';
    if (rmdir(git_path("%s", name)))
      break;
  }
}

and then

      if (lock) {
              unlink_or_warn(git_path("%s", r->name));
              unlock_ref(lock);
+              try_remove_empty_parents(r->name);
      }

Sound reasonable?

Greg