Re: [PATCH] git-count-objects: Fix a disk-space under-estimate on Cygwin

Ramsay Jones [off-list ref] writes:

Err... no :-D

Note that my suggested addition to your patch is in the core.filemode == false
code path, and so does not affect the "disk-space under-estimate" problem at all.

[To be clear: the "disk-space under-estimate" problem only happens when
core.filemode == true and the regular cygwin lstat()/stat() functions are used.
When core.filemode == false, the code in compat/cygwin.c (namely cygwin_lstat()
and cygwin_stat()) will (most likely) be called instead. These functions use
WIN32 api calls to implement equivalent, but presumably faster, versions of the
stat functions]

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You are forcing st_blksize to 512 but still return the same old st_blocks;
I do not understand what that would achieve.

Well, as I said, I haven't tested your patch, or my suggested addition, so I could
well be wrong... but what I aimed to achieve was to:

    - avoid "undefined behaviour" in on_disk_bytes(), since the value in
      st_blksize would otherwise be undefined (ie whatever happened to be
      on the stack-frame of the count_objects() function).
    - initialize the st_blksize field with a value consistent with the
      st_blocks field, which is derived from the st_size field, as the
      number of 512-byte blocks. (see the context line just before the
      + line in the above diff, along with the size_to_blocks macro)
    - return the same answer from this code as before.

Ah, sorry, so then I misread your comment.  size_to_blocks() in
compat/cygwin.c counts blocks in 512 (I just checked) and you are applying
the reverse.

But you are right.  If the emulation used on cygwin is _not_ doing the
"blocks * blksize is close to size" thing that is not POSIX but you saw in
your experiment on NTFS, and if we need your follow-up patch to make it do
so, there is no point in using my patch.

Note that the answer returned from this core.filemode == false code path
is different to the core.filemode == true code path. Which is why I *slightly*
prefer my original patch.

Thanks for a clarification.  I've already queued both to 'next', but I
will revert mine and make your patch graduate to 'master'.