rpm-ostree had code to check for this, which didn't actually work.
I don't see a no backwards compatibility concern in changing this, as
it's unlikely a caller would try to sensibly disambiguate FAILED.
I noticed OSTree was a bit slower, did some investigation
and saw we were enumerating all objects for things like
$ ostree rev-parse blah
Since "blah" can never be an object (because of the 'l' and 'h'), just
return no matches.
This patch adds a function that will parse a partial checksum when
resolving a refspec. If the inputted refspec matches a truncated
existing checksum, it will return that checksum to be parsed. If
multiple truncated checksums match the partial refspec, it is not
unique and will return false. This addition is inspired by the same
functionality in Docker, which allows a user to reference a specific
commit without typing the entire checksum.
partial checksums: Add function to abstract comparison
This modifies the list_objects and list_objects_at functions
to take an additional argument for the string that a commit starts
with. If this string arg is not null, it will only list commit
objects beginning with that string. This allows for a new function
ostree_repo_list_commit_objects_starting_with to pass a partial string
and return a list of all matching commits. This improves on the
previous strategy of listing refs because it will list all commit objects,
even ones in past history. This update also includes bugfixes on
error handling and string comparison, and changes the output structure
of resolve_partial_checksum. The new strcuture will no longer return FALSE
without error. Also, the hashtable foreach now uses iter. Also
includes modified test file
The current "transaction" symlink was introduced to fix issues with
interrupted pulls; normally we assume that if we have a metadata
object, we also have all objects to which it refers.
There used to be a "summary" which had all the available refs, but I
deleted it because it wasn't really used, and was still racy despite
the transaction bits.
We still want the pull process to use the transaction link, so don't
delete the APIs, just relax the restriction on object writing, and
introduce a new ostree_repo_set_ref_immediate().
Rather than having separate write_ref calls, make clients start a
transaction, add some refs, and then commit it. While this doesn't
make it 100% atomic, it makes it easier for us to use an atomic
model, and it means we don't do as much I/O updating the summary
file and such.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707644
We'll always have "bare" mode for keeping files-as-hardlinks as root.
But "archive" was my second attempt at a format for non-root file
storage, used by the gnome-ostree buildsystem which runs as non-root.
It was really handy to have a "tar" like mode where I can create
tarballs as a user, that contain files owned by root for example.
The "archive" mode stored content files as two pieces in the
filesystem; ".file" contained metadata, and ".filecontent" was the
actual content, uncompressed. The nice thing about this was that to
check out a tree as non-root, you could just hardlink into the repo.
However, archive was fairly bad for serving via HTTP; it required
*two* HTTP requests per content object, greatly magnifing the already
inefficient fetch process. So "archive-z2" was introduced.
To allow gnome-ostree to still check out trees as a user, the
"uncompressed-object-cache" was introduced, and that's how things have
been working for a while.
So we should just be able to kill this code. Specifically note just
how much better the stage_object() function became.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706057
Colin Walters
Anne LoVerso
James Antill
Jasper St. Pierre
Tobias Hunger