[PATCH] Emit base objects of a delta chain when the delta is output.

Deltas are useless by themselves and when you use them you need to get
to their base objects.  A base object should inherit recency from the
most recent deltified object that is based on it and that is what this
patch teaches git-pack-objects.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/pack-objects.c b/pack-objects.c
index 36f515b..feee560 100644 (file)
--- a/pack-objects.c
+++ b/pack-objects.c
@@ -118,6 +118,23 @@ static unsigned long write_object(struct sha1file *f, struct object_entry *entry
        return hdrlen + datalen;
 }
 
+static unsigned long write_one(struct sha1file *f,
+                              struct object_entry *e,
+                              unsigned long offset)
+{
+       if (e->offset)
+               /* offset starts from header size and cannot be zero
+                * if it is written already.
+                */
+               return offset;
+       e->offset = offset;
+       offset += write_object(f, e);
+       /* if we are delitified, write out its base object. */
+       if (e->delta)
+               offset = write_one(f, e->delta, offset);
+       return offset;
+}
+
 static void write_pack_file(void)
 {
        int i;
@@ -135,11 +152,9 @@ static void write_pack_file(void)
        hdr.hdr_entries = htonl(nr_objects);
        sha1write(f, &hdr, sizeof(hdr));
        offset = sizeof(hdr);
-       for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) {
-               struct object_entry *entry = objects + i;
-               entry->offset = offset;
-               offset += write_object(f, entry);
-       }
+       for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++)
+               offset = write_one(f, objects + i, offset);
+
        sha1close(f, pack_file_sha1, 1);
        mb = offset >> 20;
        offset &= 0xfffff;