Re: [PATCH 4/4] get_oid(): when an object was not found, try harder

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Junio & Peff,

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
> writes:
> 
> > @@ -442,6 +442,18 @@ static enum get_oid_result get_short_oid(const char *name, int len,
> >  	find_short_packed_object(&ds);
> >  	status = finish_object_disambiguation(&ds, oid);
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If we didn't find it, do the usual reprepare() slow-path,
> > +	 * since the object may have recently been added to the repository
> > +	 * or migrated from loose to packed.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (status == MISSING_OBJECT) {
> > +		reprepare_packed_git(the_repository);
> > +		find_short_object_filename(&ds);
> > +		find_short_packed_object(&ds);
> > +		status = finish_object_disambiguation(&ds, oid);
> > +	}
> > +
> 
> This looks obviously correct, but two things that made me wonder
> briefly were:
> 
>  1. is reprepare_packed_git() a bit too heavy-weight, if the only
>     thing we are addressing is the loose-object cache going stale?
> 
>  2. is there a way to cleanly avoid the three-line duplicate?
> 
> My tentative answers are (1) even if it is, but get_short_oid() is
> already heavy-weight enough; it won't be worth restructuring the
> code to make it possible to clear only the loose-object cache, and
> (2) a loop that runs twice when the first result is MISSING_OBJECT
> and otherwise leaves after once would need an extra variable, its
> iniialization, check and increment, which is more than what we might
> save with such a restructuring, so it won't be worth pursuing.
> 
> But others may have better ideas, as always ;-)

Peff tried with a function, but I think that this would actually be a
really appropriate occasion for a well-placed `goto`:

-- snip --
diff --git a/sha1-name.c b/sha1-name.c
index 6dda2c16df10..36a66026964a 100644
--- a/sha1-name.c
+++ b/sha1-name.c
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ static enum get_oid_result get_short_oid(const char *name, int len,
 					 struct object_id *oid,
 					 unsigned flags)
 {
-	int status;
+	int status, attempts = 0;
 	struct disambiguate_state ds;
 	int quietly = !!(flags & GET_OID_QUIETLY);
 
@@ -438,10 +438,21 @@ static enum get_oid_result get_short_oid(const char *name, int len,
 	else
 		ds.fn = default_disambiguate_hint;
 
+try_again:
 	find_short_object_filename(&ds);
 	find_short_packed_object(&ds);
 	status = finish_object_disambiguation(&ds, oid);
 
+	/*
+	 * If we did not find it, do the usual reprepare() slow-path, since the
+	 * object may have recently been added to the repository or migrated
+	 * from loose to packed.
+	 */
+	if (status == MISSING_OBJECT && !attempts++) {
+		reprepare_packed_git(the_repository);
+		goto try_again;
+	}
+
 	if (!quietly && (status == SHORT_NAME_AMBIGUOUS)) {
 		struct oid_array collect = OID_ARRAY_INIT;
 
-- snap --

Granted, it's 11 lines inserted and one changed as opposed to 12 lines
inserted, but it does make the code DRYer (and therefore slightly safer to
modify in the future). I pushed this to the GitGitGadget PR.

Thanks,
Dscho