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<updated>2026-04-01T03:43:14Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>odb: rename `odb_has_object()` flags</title>
<updated>2026-04-01T03:43:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
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<published>2026-03-31T23:57:50Z</published>
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Rename `odb_has_object()` flags to be properly prefixed with the
function name.

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>http: refactor subsystem to use `packfile_list`s</title>
<updated>2025-10-30T14:09:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-30T10:38:40Z</published>
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The dumb HTTP protocol directly fetches packfiles from the remote server
and temporarily stores them in a list of packfiles. Those packfiles are
not yet added to the repository's packfile store until we finalize the
whole fetch.

Refactor the code to instead use a `struct packfile_list` to store those
packs. This prepares us for a subsequent change where the `-&gt;next`
pointer of `struct packed_git` will go away.

Note that this refactoring creates some temporary duplication of code,
as we now have both `packfile_list_find_oid()` and `find_oid_pack()`.
The latter function will be removed in a subsequent commit though.

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>odb: rename `has_object()`</title>
<updated>2025-07-01T21:46:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-01T12:22:27Z</published>
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Rename `has_object()` to `odb_has_object()` to match other functions
related to the object database and our modern coding guidelines.

Introduce a compatibility wrapper so that any in-flight topics will
continue to compile.

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>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>
</author>
<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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<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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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<entry>
<title>treewide: convert users of `repo_has_object_file()` to `has_object()`</title>
<updated>2025-04-29T17:08:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-29T07:52:20Z</published>
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As the comment of `repo_has_object_file()` and its `_with_flags()`
variant tells us, these functions are considered to be deprecated in
favor of `has_object()`. There are a couple of slight benefits in favor
of the replacement:

  - The new function has a short-and-sweet name.

  - More explicit defaults: `has_object()` doesn't fetch missing objects
    via promisor remotes, and neither does it reload packfiles if an
    object wasn't found by default. This ensures that it becomes
    immediately obvious when a simple object existence check may result
    in expensive actions.

Most importantly though, it is confusing that we have two sets of
functions that ultimately do the same thing, but with different
defaults.

Start sunsetting `repo_has_object_file()` and its `_with_flags()`
sibling by replacing all callsites with `has_object()`:

  - `repo_has_object_file(...)` is equivalent to
    `has_object(..., HAS_OBJECT_RECHECK_PACKED | HAS_OBJECT_FETCH_PROMISOR)`.

  - `repo_has_object_file_with_flags(..., OBJECT_INFO_QUICK | OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT)`
    is equivalent to `has_object(..., 0)`.

  - `repo_has_object_file_with_flags(..., OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT)`
    is equivalent to `has_object(..., HAS_OBJECT_RECHECK_PACKED)`.

  - `repo_has_object_file_with_flags(..., OBJECT_INFO_QUICK)`
    is equivalent to `has_object(..., HAS_OBJECT_FETCH_PROMISOR)`.

The replacements should be functionally equivalent.

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>object-store: drop `loose_object_path()`</title>
<updated>2025-04-29T17:08:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-29T07:52:16Z</published>
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The function `loose_object_path()` is a trivial wrapper around
`odb_loose_path()`, with the only exception that it always uses the
primary object database of the given repository. This doesn't really add
a ton of value though, so let's drop the function and inline it at every
callsite.

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>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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<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>
</author>
<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;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>packfile: convert find_sha1_pack() to use object_id</title>
<updated>2024-10-25T21:35:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-25T07:05:03Z</published>
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The find_sha1_pack() function has a few problems:

  - it's badly named, since it works with any object hash

  - it takes the hash as a bare pointer rather than an object_id struct

We can fix both of these easily, as all callers actually have a real
object_id anyway.

I also found the existence of this function somewhat confusing, as it is
about looking in an arbitrary set of linked packed_git structs. It's
good for things like dumb-http which are looking in downloaded remote
packs, and not our local packs. But despite the name, it is not a good
way to find the pack which contains a local object (it skips the use of
the midx, the pack mru list, and so on).

So let's also add an explanatory comment above the declaration that may
point people in the right direction.

I suspect the calls in fast-import.c, which use the packed_git list from
the repository struct, could actually just be using find_pack_entry().
But since we'd need to keep it anyway for dumb-http, I didn't dig
further there. If we eventually drop dumb-http support, then it might be
worth examining them to see if we can get rid of the function entirely.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau &lt;me@ttaylorr.com&gt;
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