Re: [PATCH 0/5] odb: make packfile generation pluggable

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Hi,
>
> this patch series makes packfile generation pluggable.
>
> Note that this series only makes those parts pluggable that are required
> for the transport layer. The other parts that relate to packfile
> generation as required by our repository maintenance is kept as-is, as
> there is a bunch of options there that are way too specific to the
> "files" backend to be portable. This should ultimately not be much of a
> problem though, as maintenance itself is already pluggable in the first
> place.
>
> It's a bit of a shame though for git-pack-objects(1), which still isn't
> usable with alternate backends. I tried several times to find good
> solutions for making it fully pluggable, but due to the backend-specific
> options it's an utter mess. I want to eventually address this though:
> same as with git-refs(1), I want to introduce git-objects(1) to care
> about all things ODB. And as part of that command we can also introduce
> a command that generates packfiles in a generic fashion, without all the
> cruft that git-pack-objects(1) has. This is part of a future patch
> series though.
>
> The series is built on top of 2c78326f81 (The 11th batch, 2026-08-05).

With "--no-ref-delta" thing in flight, this will not play well with
what is in 'seen', though.