gc/repack: release packs when needed

dscho · gitster · commit 5bdece0d7057 · 2019-01-11T09:22:39.000-08:00
On Windows, files cannot be removed nor renamed if there are still
handles held by a process. To remedy that, we introduced the
close_all_packs() function.

Earlier, we made sure that the packs are released just before `git gc`
is spawned, in case that gc wants to remove no-longer needed packs.

But this developer forgot that gc itself also needs to let go of packs,
e.g. when consolidating all packs via the --aggressive option.

Likewise, `git repack -d` wants to delete obsolete packs and therefore
needs to close all pack handles, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/builtin/gc.c b/builtin/gc.c
@@ -642,8 +642,10 @@ int cmd_gc(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	report_garbage = report_pack_garbage;
 	reprepare_packed_git(the_repository);
-	if (pack_garbage.nr > 0)
+	if (pack_garbage.nr > 0) {
+		close_all_packs(the_repository->objects);
 		clean_pack_garbage();
+	}
 
 	if (gc_write_commit_graph)
 		write_commit_graph_reachable(get_object_directory(), 0);
diff --git a/builtin/repack.c b/builtin/repack.c
@@ -408,6 +408,8 @@ int cmd_repack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (!names.nr && !po_args.quiet)
 		printf("Nothing new to pack.\n");
 
+	close_all_packs(the_repository->objects);
+
 	/*
 	 * Ok we have prepared all new packfiles.
 	 * First see if there are packs of the same name and if so
