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<updated>2025-07-01T21:46:36Z</updated>
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<title>odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `for_each()` functions</title>
<updated>2025-07-01T21:46:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
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<published>2025-07-01T12:22:21Z</published>
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There are a couple of iterator-style functions that execute a callback
for each instance of a given set, all of which currently depend on
`the_repository`. Refactor them to instead take an object database as
parameter so that we can get rid of this dependency.

Rename the functions accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<title>object-store: rename files to "odb.{c,h}"</title>
<updated>2025-07-01T21:46:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
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<published>2025-07-01T12:22:15Z</published>
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In the preceding commits we have renamed the structures contained in
"object-store.h" to `struct object_database` and `struct odb_backend`.
As such, the code files "object-store.{c,h}" are confusingly named now.
Rename them to "odb.{c,h}" accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<title>object-store: rename `object_directory` to `odb_source`</title>
<updated>2025-07-01T21:46:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
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<published>2025-07-01T12:22:14Z</published>
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The `object_directory` structure is used as an access point for a single
object directory like ".git/objects". While the structure isn't yet
fully self-contained, the intent is for it to eventually contain all
information required to access objects in one specific location.

While the name "object directory" is a good fit for now, this will
change over time as we continue with the agenda to make pluggable object
databases a thing. Eventually, objects may not be accessed via any kind
of directory at all anymore, but they could instead be backed by any
kind of durable storage mechanism. While it seems quite far-fetched for
now, it is thinkable that eventually this might even be some form of a
database, for example.

As such, the current name of this structure will become worse over time
as we evolve into the direction of pluggable ODBs. Immediate next steps
will start to carve out proper self-contained object directories, which
requires us to pass in these object directories as parameters. Based on
our modern naming schema this means that those functions should then be
named after their subsystem, which means that we would start to bake the
current name into the codebase more and more.

Let's preempt this by renaming the structure. There have been a couple
alternatives that were discussed:

  - `odb_backend` was discarded because it led to the association that
    one object database has a single backend, but the model is that one
    alternate has one backend. Furthermore, "backend" is more about the
    actual backing implementation and less about the high-level concept.

  - `odb_alternate` was discarded because it is a bit of a stretch to
    also call the main object directory an "alternate".

Instead, pick `odb_source` as the new name. It makes it sufficiently
clear that there can be multiple sources and does not cause confusion
when mixed with the already-existing "alternate" terminology.

In the future, this change allows us to easily introduce for example a
`odb_files_source` and other format-specific implementations.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<title>object-store: merge "object-store-ll.h" and "object-store.h"</title>
<updated>2025-04-15T15:24:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-15T09:38:23Z</published>
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The "object-store-ll.h" header has been introduced to keep transitive
header dependendcies and compile times at bay. Now that we have created
a new "object-store.c" file though we can easily move the last remaining
additional bit of "object-store.h", the `odb_path_map`, out of the
header.

Do so. As the "object-store.h" header is now equivalent to its low-level
alternative we drop the latter and inline it into the former.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<title>diagnose: stop using `the_repository`</title>
<updated>2024-12-18T18:44:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-17T06:43:54Z</published>
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Stop using `the_repository` in the "diagnose" subsystem by passing in a
repository when generating a diagnostics archive.

Adjust callers accordingly by using `the_repository`. While there may be
some callers that have a repository available in their context, this
trivial conversion allows for easier verification and bubbles up the use
of `the_repository` by one level.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<title>global: trivial conversions to fix `-Wsign-compare` warnings</title>
<updated>2024-12-06T11:20:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-06T10:27:24Z</published>
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We have a bunch of loops which iterate up to an unsigned boundary using
a signed index, which generates warnigs because we compare a signed and
unsigned value in the loop condition. Address these sites for trivial
cases and enable `-Wsign-compare` warnings for these code units.

This patch only adapts those code units where we can drop the
`DISABLE_SIGN_COMPARE_WARNINGS` macro in the same step.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`</title>
<updated>2024-12-06T11:20:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
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<published>2024-12-06T10:27:19Z</published>
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Mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`. This
allows for a structured approach to get rid of all such warnings over
time in a way that can be easily measured.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>global: introduce `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro</title>
<updated>2024-06-14T17:26:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T06:50:23Z</published>
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Use of the `the_repository` variable is deprecated nowadays, and we
slowly but steadily convert the codebase to not use it anymore. Instead,
callers should be passing down the repository to work on via parameters.

It is hard though to prove that a given code unit does not use this
variable anymore. The most trivial case, merely demonstrating that there
is no direct use of `the_repository`, is already a bit of a pain during
code reviews as the reviewer needs to manually verify claims made by the
patch author. The bigger problem though is that we have many interfaces
that implicitly rely on `the_repository`.

Introduce a new `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro that allows code
units to opt into usage of `the_repository`. The intent of this macro is
to demonstrate that a certain code unit does not use this variable
anymore, and to keep it from new dependencies on it in future changes,
be it explicit or implicit

For now, the macro only guards `the_repository` itself as well as
`the_hash_algo`. There are many more known interfaces where we have an
implicit dependency on `the_repository`, but those are not guarded at
the current point in time. Over time though, we should start to add
guards as required (or even better, just remove them).

Define the macro as required in our code units. As expected, most of our
code still relies on the global variable. Nearly all of our builtins
rely on the variable as there is no way yet to pass `the_repository` to
their entry point. For now, declare the macro in "biultin.h" to keep the
required changes at least a little bit more contained.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dir.[ch]: add 'follow_symlink' arg to 'get_dtype'</title>
<updated>2023-10-09T22:53:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Victoria Dye</name>
<email>vdye@github.com</email>
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<published>2023-10-09T21:58:55Z</published>
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Add a 'follow_symlink' boolean option to 'get_type()'. If 'follow_symlink'
is enabled, DT_LNK (in addition to DT_UNKNOWN) d_types triggers the
stat-based d_type resolution, using 'stat' instead of 'lstat' to get the
type of the followed symlink. Note that symlinks are not followed
recursively, so a symlink pointing to another symlink will still resolve to
DT_LNK.

Update callers in 'diagnose.c' to specify 'follow_symlink = 0' to preserve
current behavior.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye &lt;vdye@github.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dir.[ch]: expose 'get_dtype'</title>
<updated>2023-10-09T22:53:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Victoria Dye</name>
<email>vdye@github.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-09T21:58:54Z</published>
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Move 'get_dtype()' from 'diagnose.c' to 'dir.c' and add its declaration to
'dir.h' so that it is accessible to callers in other files. The function and
its documentation are moved verbatim except for a small addition to the
description clarifying what the 'path' arg represents.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye &lt;vdye@github.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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