From: "Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>, Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@openai.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>, qeesung <qeesung@live.com>,
Qin ShiCheng <qeesung@live.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] pack-objects: add --keep-pack-from-file
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:31:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8e27b7aacb969fa1162847606871f7df6748274.1789385483.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2219.git.1789385483.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Qin ShiCheng <qeesung@live.com>
"--keep-pack" names one pack per occurrence, and there is only so much
room on the command line: ARG_MAX is shared with the environment, and
on Windows the whole line is capped at 32,767 characters, which a few
hundred pack names fill. Past that the spawn fails before pack-objects
has started. fetch-pack grew "--stdin" in 078b895fef (fetch-pack: new
--stdin option to read refs from stdin, 2012-04-02) for the same
reason.
stdin is taken here: every mode repack drives pack-objects in already
uses it, for the revision list under "-a", object names for the
promisor pack, and pack lists for "--stdin-packs" and "--cruft". So
read the names from a file instead, one per line, skipping empty
lines. They go into the same list as the "--keep-pack" names and are
treated exactly alike: matched against local packs, ignored when they
match nothing, and kept open under "--stdin-packs=follow". A relative
path is resolved against the directory the user ran from, as
"--refs-snapshot" of "git multi-pack-index write" is.
The list now holds strings from two sources, so let it own its copies.
repack is about to use this to hand pack-objects its own snapshot of
the packs that have a ".keep" file.
Signed-off-by: Qin ShiCheng <qeesung@live.com>
---
Documentation/git-pack-objects.adoc | 8 +++++
builtin/pack-objects.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++
t/t5331-pack-objects-stdin.sh | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 82 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.adoc b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.adoc
index 65cd00c152..938e27f69d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.adoc
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty]
[--local] [--incremental] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>]
[--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--keep-pack=<pack-name>]
+ [--keep-pack-from-file=<file>]
[--cruft] [--cruft-expiration=<time>]
[--stdout [--filter=<filter-spec>] | <base-name>]
[--shallow] [--keep-true-parents] [--[no-]sparse]
@@ -193,6 +194,13 @@ depth is 4095.
leading directory (e.g. `pack-123.pack`). The option could be
specified multiple times to keep multiple packs.
+--keep-pack-from-file=<file>::
+ Read names of packs to keep from `<file>`, one per line, and
+ treat each of them as if it had been given with `--keep-pack`.
+ Empty lines are ignored. This is meant for callers such as
+ linkgit:git-repack[1] that may have to name more packs than fit
+ on a command line.
+
--incremental::
This flag causes an object already in a pack to be ignored
even if it would have otherwise been packed.
diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index 1fcb4ef8a5..9f8c4b9135 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ static const char *const pack_usage[] = {
" [--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty]\n"
" [--local] [--incremental] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>]\n"
" [--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--keep-pack=<pack-name>]\n"
+ " [--keep-pack-from-file=<file>]\n"
" [--cruft] [--cruft-expiration=<time>]\n"
" [--stdout [--filter=<filter-spec>] | <base-name>]\n"
" [--shallow] [--keep-true-parents] [--[no-]sparse]\n"
@@ -5007,6 +5008,26 @@ static void get_object_list(struct rev_info *revs, struct strvec *argv)
oid_array_clear(&recent_objects);
}
+/*
+ * Read pack names from the file, one per line, as if each of them had
+ * been given with "--keep-pack".
+ */
+static void read_keep_pack_list(struct string_list *names, const char *path)
+{
+ struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+ FILE *fp = xfopen(path, "r");
+
+ while (strbuf_getline(&buf, fp) != EOF) {
+ if (!buf.len)
+ continue;
+ string_list_append(names, buf.buf);
+ }
+ if (ferror(fp))
+ die_errno(_("could not read '%s'"), path);
+ fclose(fp);
+ strbuf_release(&buf);
+}
+
static void add_extra_kept_packs(struct string_list *names,
enum stdin_packs_mode stdin_packs)
{
@@ -5147,8 +5168,10 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc,
int rev_list_index = 0;
enum stdin_packs_mode stdin_packs = STDIN_PACKS_MODE_NONE;
struct string_list keep_pack_list = {
+ .strdup_strings = 1,
.cmp = fspathcmp,
};
+ char *keep_pack_from_file = NULL;
struct list_objects_filter_options filter_options =
LIST_OBJECTS_FILTER_INIT;
struct repo_config_values *cfg = repo_config_values(the_repository);
@@ -5233,6 +5256,8 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc,
N_("ignore packs that have companion .keep file")),
OPT_STRING_LIST(0, "keep-pack", &keep_pack_list, N_("name"),
N_("ignore this pack")),
+ OPT_FILENAME(0, "keep-pack-from-file", &keep_pack_from_file,
+ N_("ignore the packs named in <file>")),
OPT_INTEGER(0, "compression", &cfg->pack_compression_level,
N_("pack compression level")),
OPT_BOOL(0, "keep-true-parents", &grafts_keep_true_parents,
@@ -5460,6 +5485,8 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc,
if (progress && all_progress_implied)
progress = 2;
+ if (keep_pack_from_file)
+ read_keep_pack_list(&keep_pack_list, keep_pack_from_file);
add_extra_kept_packs(&keep_pack_list, stdin_packs);
if (ignore_packed_keep_on_disk) {
struct packed_git *p;
@@ -5554,6 +5581,7 @@ cleanup:
clear_packing_data(&to_pack);
list_objects_filter_release(&filter_options);
string_list_clear(&keep_pack_list, 0);
+ free(keep_pack_from_file);
strvec_clear(&rp);
return 0;
diff --git a/t/t5331-pack-objects-stdin.sh b/t/t5331-pack-objects-stdin.sh
index 4e1fde1b08..d590aa4dad 100755
--- a/t/t5331-pack-objects-stdin.sh
+++ b/t/t5331-pack-objects-stdin.sh
@@ -561,4 +561,50 @@ test_expect_success '--stdin-packs with !-delimited pack without follow' '
)
'
+test_expect_success '--keep-pack-from-file names packs to keep' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -fr repo" &&
+
+ git init repo &&
+ (
+ cd repo &&
+ git config set maintenance.auto false &&
+
+ test_commit A &&
+ test_commit B &&
+ test_commit C &&
+
+ A="$(echo A | git pack-objects --revs $packdir/pack)" &&
+ B="$(echo A..B | git pack-objects --revs $packdir/pack)" &&
+ C="$(echo B..C | git pack-objects --revs $packdir/pack)" &&
+ git prune-packed &&
+
+ # Empty lines and names that match no pack are ignored,
+ # as they would be with --keep-pack.
+ cat >keep <<-EOF &&
+ pack-$A.pack
+
+ pack-$B.pack
+ pack-does-not-exist.pack
+ EOF
+
+ P=$(git pack-objects --all --keep-pack=pack-$A.pack \
+ --keep-pack=pack-$B.pack from-argv </dev/null) &&
+ packed_objects from-argv-$P.idx >expect &&
+
+ P=$(git pack-objects --all --keep-pack-from-file=keep \
+ from-file </dev/null) &&
+ packed_objects from-file-$P.idx >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+
+ objects_in_packs $C >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+ )
+'
+
+test_expect_success '--keep-pack-from-file with a missing file' '
+ test_must_fail git pack-objects --stdout \
+ --keep-pack-from-file=does-not-exist </dev/null 2>err &&
+ test_grep "could not open .does-not-exist. for reading" err
+'
+
test_done
--
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2026-09-14 11:31 ` Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget [this message]
2026-09-14 11:31 ` [PATCH 6/6] repack: tell pack-objects which packs are kept Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget
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2026-09-18 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] pack-objects: keep --keep-pack open when following Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget
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2026-09-22 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-23 3:08 ` Qin ShiCheng
2026-09-23 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-18 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] pack-objects: sort --keep-pack list for lookup Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget
2026-09-18 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] pack-objects: add --keep-pack-from-file Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget
2026-09-18 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] repack: tell pack-objects which packs are kept Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget
2026-10-08 9:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] repack: don't lose objects to a ".keep" that appears mid-run qeesung via GitGitGadget
2026-10-08 9:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] pack-objects: keep --keep-pack open when following Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget
2026-10-08 9:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] pack-objects: reset kept-pack cache for cruft walk Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget
2026-10-08 9:52 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] pack-objects: sort --keep-pack list for lookup Qin ShiCheng via GitGitGadget
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2026-10-08 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] repack: don't lose objects to a ".keep" that appears mid-run Junio C Hamano
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