[PATCH v4 00/11] receive-pack: use ODB transactions to stage object writes
From: Justin Tobler <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-10 16:37:28
Greetings,
This patch series replaces direct usage of the `tmp_objdir` interfaces
in git-receive-pack(1) to instead use the `odb_transaction` interfaces
to create/manage a staging area to write objects to. The purpose of this
change is to get git-receive-pack(1) one step closer to being ODB
backend agnostic. For now, the object writes themselves are still
"files" backend specific due to being handled by the git-index-pack(1)
and git-unpack-objects(1) child processes. This will be tackled in a
separate series though.
Changes since V3:
- Removed ugly line break in commit message to prevent eye strain.
- `odb_transaction_begin()` now only sets the repository transaction
on success.
- `odb_transaction_env()` now bubbles up error when failing to create
the temporary directory.
Changes since V2:
- Clarified commit log reasoning for embedding
`flush_loose_object_transaction()` logic in commit function.
- Started printed some error messages on transaction errors.
- Removed include statement.
- Fixed transaction leak on `odb_transaction_commit()` error.
Changes since V1:
- Adapted other "file" ODB transaction helpers to be more consistent
with current naming scheme.
- Removed redundant NULL transaction handling from
`odb_transaction_files_begin()`.
- `odb_transaction_begin()` now returns an error if there is already
an inflight transaction pending instead of setting the `out` pointer
to NULL.
- Updated `odb_transaction_env()` to return an error code and append
environment variables to a strvec provided as an argument.
- Removed redundant setting of tmpdir environment variables for child
processes after tmpdir has been migrated.
- Split changes adding ODB transaction flags into a separate commit.
- Consistently wire the ODB transaction throughout git-receive-pack
code instead of reading it from `the_repository`.
- Updated user facing error message.
- Updated some comments to better document functions/flags.
- Clarified some commit messages.
- Fixed typos.
Thanks,
-Justin
Justin Tobler (11):
object-file: rename files transaction prepare function
object-file: rename files transaction fsync function
object-file: embed transaction flush logic in commit function
object-file: drop check for inflight transactions
object-file: propagate files transaction errors
odb/transaction: propagate begin errors
odb/transaction: propagate commit errors
odb/transaction: add transaction env interface
odb/transaction: introduce ODB transaction flags
builtin/receive-pack: drop redundant tmpdir env
builtin/receive-pack: stage incoming objects via ODB transactions
builtin/add.c | 2 +-
builtin/receive-pack.c | 69 ++++++++---------
builtin/unpack-objects.c | 2 +-
builtin/update-index.c | 2 +-
cache-tree.c | 7 +-
object-file.c | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
object-file.h | 8 +-
odb/source-files.c | 9 +--
odb/source-inmemory.c | 3 +-
odb/source-loose.c | 3 +-
odb/source.h | 9 ++-
odb/transaction.c | 33 ++++++--
odb/transaction.h | 59 +++++++++++---
read-cache.c | 7 +-
14 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
Range-diff against v3:
1: 9c14b219ad = 1: 9c14b219ad object-file: rename files transaction prepare function
2: 5703a9e93b = 2: 5703a9e93b object-file: rename files transaction fsync function
3: 76204847f2 ! 3: 70267741b0 object-file: embed transaction flush logic in commit function
@@ Commit message
subsequent commit, the transaction temporary directory is used to stage
packfiles and not just loose objects anymore.
- Lift the helper function logic directly into
- `odb_transaction_files_commit()` to more accurately signal to readers
- the operation being performed.
+ Lift the helper function logic into `odb_transaction_files_commit()` to
+ more accurately signal to readers the operation being performed.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler [off-list ref]
4: c97eb7763f = 4: 34cd3822c5 object-file: drop check for inflight transactions
5: 1f3a1f7714 = 5: 240aa3475f object-file: propagate files transaction errors
6: 09d13272d5 ! 6: 0d91310fac odb/transaction: propagate begin errors
@@ odb/transaction.c
- odb_source_begin_transaction(odb->sources, &odb->transaction);
+ ret = odb_source_begin_transaction(odb->sources, out);
-+ odb->transaction = *out;
++ if (!ret)
++ odb->transaction = *out;
- return odb->transaction;
+ return ret;
7: 12833d6773 = 7: 5e4680ed75 odb/transaction: propagate commit errors
8: f2586f2f34 ! 8: babcf6b156 odb/transaction: add transaction env interface
@@ object-file.c: static int odb_transaction_files_commit(struct odb_transaction *b
+{
+ struct odb_transaction_files *transaction =
+ container_of(base, struct odb_transaction_files, base);
++ int ret;
+
-+ odb_transaction_files_prepare(&transaction->base);
-+ strvec_pushv(env, tmp_objdir_env(transaction->objdir));
++ ret = odb_transaction_files_prepare(&transaction->base);
++ if (!ret)
++ strvec_pushv(env, tmp_objdir_env(transaction->objdir));
+
-+ return 0;
++ return ret;
+}
+
int odb_transaction_files_begin(struct odb_source *source,
9: 9d082b5e47 ! 9: 96f2a21eec odb/transaction: introduce ODB transaction flags
@@ odb/transaction.c
- ret = odb_source_begin_transaction(odb->sources, out);
+ ret = odb_source_begin_transaction(odb->sources, out, flags);
- odb->transaction = *out;
+ if (!ret)
+ odb->transaction = *out;
- return ret;
## odb/transaction.h ##
@@
10: e11d8a6676 = 10: 56718f1190 builtin/receive-pack: drop redundant tmpdir env
11: fee57c2817 = 11: 5197a19fbf builtin/receive-pack: stage incoming objects via ODB transactions
base-commit: ab776a62a78576513ee121424adb19597fbb7613
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