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One of the tests in t5616 asserts that git-fetch(1) with `--refetch`
triggers repository maintenance with the correct set of arguments. This
test is flaky and causes us to fail sometimes:
++ git -c protocol.version=0 -c gc.autoPackLimit=0 -c maintenance.incremental-repack.auto=1234 -C pc1 fetch --refetch origin
error: unable to open .git/objects/pack/pack-029d08823bd8a8eab510ad6ac75c823cfd3ed31e.pack: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to rename temporary file to '.git/objects/pack/pack-029d08823bd8a8eab510ad6ac75c823cfd3ed31e.pack'
fatal: could not finish pack-objects to repack local links
fatal: index-pack failed
error: last command exited with $?=128
The error message is quite confusing as it talks about trying to rename
a temporary packfile. A first hunch would thus be that this packfile
gets written by git-fetch(1), but removed by git-maintenance(1) while it
hasn't yet been finalized, which shouldn't ever happen. And indeed, when
looking closer one notices that the file that is supposedly of temporary
nature does not have the typical `tmp_pack_` prefix.
As it turns out, the "unable to rename temporary file" fatal error is a
red herring and the real error is "unable to open". That error is raised
by `check_collision()`, which is called by `finalize_object_file()` when
moving the new packfile into place. Because t5616 re-fetches objects, we
end up with the exact same pack as we already have in the repository. So
when the concurrent git-maintenance(1) process rewrites the preexisting
pack and unlinks it exactly at the point in time where git-fetch(1)
wants to check the old and new packfiles for equality we will see ENOENT
and thus `check_collision()` returns an error, which gets bubbled up by
`finalize_object_file()` and is then handled by `rename_tmp_packfile()`.
That function does not know about the exact root cause of the error and
instead just claims that the rename has failed.
This race is thus caused by b1b8dfde69 (finalize_object_file():
implement collision check, 2024-09-26), where we have newly introduced
the collision check.
By definition, two files cannot collide with each other when one of them
has been removed. We can thus trivially fix the issue by ignoring ENOENT
when opening either of the files we're about to check for collision.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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