[GSoC PATCH 2/2] repo: add the field objects.format
From: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <hidden>
Date: 2025-08-20 14:43:53
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The flag `--show-object-format` from git-rev-parse is used for retrieving the object storage format. This way, it is used for querying repository metadata, fitting in the purpose of git-repo-info. Add a new field `objects.format` to the git-repo-info subcommand containing that information. Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak [off-list ref] Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <redacted> --- Documentation/git-repo.adoc | 3 +++ builtin/repo.c | 7 +++++++ t/t1900-repo.sh | 6 ++++++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repo.adoc b/Documentation/git-repo.adoc
index f2dc71193c..b6ec423d12 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repo.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-repo.adoc@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ values that they return: `layout.shallow`:: `true` if this is a shallow repository, otherwise `false`. +`objects.format`:: + The object format (hash algorithm) used in the repository. + `references.format`:: The reference storage format. The valid values are: +
diff --git a/builtin/repo.c b/builtin/repo.c
index b2ec66e454..71ddc5e8c6 100644
--- a/builtin/repo.c
+++ b/builtin/repo.c@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ static int get_layout_shallow(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf) return 0; } +static int get_objects_format(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf) +{ + strbuf_addstr(buf, repo->hash_algo->name); + return 0; +} + static int get_references_format(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf) { strbuf_addstr(buf,
@@ -49,6 +55,7 @@ static int get_references_format(struct repository *repo, struct strbuf *buf) static const struct field repo_info_fields[] = { { "layout.bare", get_layout_bare }, { "layout.shallow", get_layout_shallow }, + { "objects.format", get_objects_format}, { "references.format", get_references_format }, };
diff --git a/t/t1900-repo.sh b/t/t1900-repo.sh
index 3df55dcc79..aca2ed23f9 100755
--- a/t/t1900-repo.sh
+++ b/t/t1900-repo.sh@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ test_expect_success 'setup remote' ' test_repo_info 'shallow repository = true is retrieved correctly' \ 'git clone --depth 1 "file://$PWD/remote"' 'shallow' 'layout.shallow' 'true' +test_repo_info 'objects.format = sha1 is retrieved correctly' \ + 'git init --object-format=sha1' 'sha1' 'objects.format' 'sha1' + +test_repo_info 'objects.format = sha256 is retrieved correctly' \ + 'git init --object-format=sha256' 'sha256' 'objects.format' 'sha256' + test_expect_success 'values returned in order requested' ' cat >expect <<-\EOF && layout.bare=false
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2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)