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authorshejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>2025-05-14 23:50:26 +0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-05-14 12:32:58 -0700
commit784ceccb91b82dc8a2c69ddd6f1f5ccc2e2f96f2 (patch)
treec6883960664fa50821e8af5ffb42fb8b4504354e
parent6f84262c44a89851c3ae5a6e4c1a9d06b2068d75 (diff)
downloadgit-784ceccb91b82dc8a2c69ddd6f1f5ccc2e2f96f2.tar.gz
packed-backend: fsck should warn when "packed-refs" file is empty
We assume the "packed-refs" won't be empty and instead has at least one line in it (even when there are no refs packed, there is the file header line). Because there is no terminating LF in the empty file, we will report "packedRefEntryNotTerminated(ERROR)" to the user. However, the runtime code paths would accept an empty "packed-refs" file, for example, "create_snapshot" would simply return the "snapshot" without checking the content of "packed-refs". So, we should skip checking the content of "packed-refs" when it is empty during fsck. After 694b7a1999 (repack_without_ref(): write peeled refs in the rewritten file, 2013-04-22), we would always write a header into the "packed-refs" file. So, versions of Git that are not too ancient never write such an empty "packed-refs" file. As an empty file often indicates a sign of a filesystem-level issue, the way we want to resolve this inconsistency is not make everybody totally silent but notice and report the anomaly. Let's create a "FSCK_INFO" message id "EMPTY_PACKED_REFS_FILE" to report to the users that "packed-refs" is empty. Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fsck-msgids.adoc6
-rw-r--r--fsck.h1
-rw-r--r--refs/packed-backend.c9
-rwxr-xr-xt/t0602-reffiles-fsck.sh17
4 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fsck-msgids.adoc b/Documentation/fsck-msgids.adoc
index 9601fff228..0ba4f9a27e 100644
--- a/Documentation/fsck-msgids.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/fsck-msgids.adoc
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@
`emptyName`::
(WARN) A path contains an empty name.
+`emptyPackedRefsFile`::
+ (INFO) "packed-refs" file is empty. Report to the
+ git@vger.kernel.org mailing list if you see this error. As only
+ very early versions of Git would create such an empty
+ "packed_refs" file, we might tighten this rule in the future.
+
`extraHeaderEntry`::
(IGNORE) Extra headers found after `tagger`.
diff --git a/fsck.h b/fsck.h
index b1deae61ee..0c5869ac34 100644
--- a/fsck.h
+++ b/fsck.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ enum fsck_msg_type {
FUNC(LARGE_PATHNAME, WARN) \
/* infos (reported as warnings, but ignored by default) */ \
FUNC(BAD_FILEMODE, INFO) \
+ FUNC(EMPTY_PACKED_REFS_FILE, INFO) \
FUNC(GITMODULES_PARSE, INFO) \
FUNC(GITIGNORE_SYMLINK, INFO) \
FUNC(GITATTRIBUTES_SYMLINK, INFO) \
diff --git a/refs/packed-backend.c b/refs/packed-backend.c
index 3ad1ed0787..fb91833e76 100644
--- a/refs/packed-backend.c
+++ b/refs/packed-backend.c
@@ -2103,6 +2103,15 @@ static int packed_fsck(struct ref_store *ref_store,
goto cleanup;
}
+ if (!st.st_size) {
+ struct fsck_ref_report report = { 0 };
+ report.path = "packed-refs";
+ ret = fsck_report_ref(o, &report,
+ FSCK_MSG_EMPTY_PACKED_REFS_FILE,
+ "file is empty");
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
+
if (strbuf_read(&packed_ref_content, fd, 0) < 0) {
ret = error_errno(_("unable to read '%s'"), refs->path);
goto cleanup;
diff --git a/t/t0602-reffiles-fsck.sh b/t/t0602-reffiles-fsck.sh
index 9d1dc2144c..f671ac4d3a 100755
--- a/t/t0602-reffiles-fsck.sh
+++ b/t/t0602-reffiles-fsck.sh
@@ -647,6 +647,23 @@ test_expect_success SYMLINKS 'the filetype of packed-refs should be checked' '
)
'
+test_expect_success 'empty packed-refs should be reported' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
+ git init repo &&
+ (
+ cd repo &&
+ test_commit default &&
+
+ >.git/packed-refs &&
+ git refs verify 2>err &&
+ cat >expect <<-EOF &&
+ warning: packed-refs: emptyPackedRefsFile: file is empty
+ EOF
+ rm .git/packed-refs &&
+ test_cmp expect err
+ )
+'
+
test_expect_success 'packed-refs header should be checked' '
test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
git init repo &&