Here is a new version on my ammendments to Junios patch.
-- robin
From 67347a63ce5ba324a750eb2c1ed7b9b0260d966a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Rosenberg <redacted>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:18:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Recover from some known repack failure situations
For the know problems that we can recover from we exit
with code 2 instead of 1.
Also removed the old packs when repack succeeds
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <redacted>
---
Documentation/git-repack.txt | 6 ++++++
git-repack.sh | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index aaa8852..e5ecd66 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ associated index file.
Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup
engines, disk storage, etc.
+On Windows repacking may fail because packs that should be replaced
+are locked by other programs. In this case the program will recover
+from the situation with an exit code of 2. The user does not have
+to take any action to recover. For repacking to succeed the user
+mustc stop the offending program or wait for it to close the packs.
+
OPTIONS
-------
diff --git a/git-repack.sh b/git-repack.sh
index 0f13043..519c83a 100755
--- a/git-repack.sh
+++ b/git-repack.sh
@@ -136,8 +136,15 @@ then
do
echo >&2 "WARNING: old-$file -> $file"
done
+ exit 1
fi
- exit 1
+ echo >&2 "INFO: We recovered from the repack error, but your repo"
+ echo >&2 "INFO: is probably suboptimally packed. You may try to repack"
+ echo >&2 "INFO: later. A common reason for repacking failure is that"
+ echo >&2 "INFO: a Windows program was locking one of the old pack files."
+ echo >&2 "INFO: To repack successfully you may have to close that program"
+ echo >&2 "INFO: before repacking."
+ exit 2
fi
# Now the ones with the same name are out of the way...
@@ -152,6 +159,15 @@ do
exit
done
+# Remove the "old-" files
+for name in $names
+do
+ rm -f "$PACKDIR/old-pack-$name.idx"
+ rm -f "$PACKDIR/old-pack-$name.pack"
+done
+
+# End of pack replacement.
+
if test "$remove_redundant" = t
then
# We know $existing are all redundant.
--
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