Introduce a new '--stdin-packs=follow-reachable' mode. Like
'--stdin-packs=follow', this mode recognizes the '!' (excluded-open)
pack prefix and halts at '^' (excluded-closed) packs.
Unlike 'follow', which eagerly includes all objects from listed packs
and then walks reachability to rescue additional objects, the new
'follow-reachable' mode uses reference tips as its traversal starting
points and only includes objects that are both reachable AND belong to
an included pack (or are reachable from a commit or tag in one):
- Objects in included packs: added to the output if reachable.
- Objects reachable from included-pack commits but in unknown packs:
added to the output (rescued).
- Objects in excluded-open ('!') packs: not included, but the traversal
continues through them.
- Objects in excluded-closed ('^') packs: not included, and the
traversal halts.
The implementation uses a two-phase approach:
1. In the first phase, commits and tags in included packs (and loose,
when --unpacked is given) are marked with a flag bit
(IN_INCLUDED_PACK). A commit-only walk from ref tips then identifies
which marked objects are reachable, halting at excluded-closed
packs.
2. In the second phase, every reachable marked object (from the
previous step) becomes a tip for a full object traversal whose
`show_object_pack_hint()` and `show_commit_pack_hint()` callbacks
add discovered objects (obeying the usual constraints imposed by
`want_object_in_pack()`).
When '--unpacked' is given, reachable loose objects are included in the
output while unreachable loose objects are left alone. This is achieved
by marking loose commits and tags with IN_INCLUDED_PACK during the first
phase, so the pre-walk discovers them naturally.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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