In my team we've been looking for a fast way to check a large number of repositories for large files, which are typically unintentionally checked in binaries, so that we can warn repository owners and help them tidy up as desired.
There seem to be two main approaches to scripting this. The first is to do something revision-walk based such as `log --numstat` and the second is to scan pack files using `verify-pack -v` and either to ensure that everything is packed or scan loose objects separately. The revision walking tends to be slow and parsing verify-pack -v is awkward not only because of the need to take account of multiple packs and loose objects, but also because it is porcelainish. For example, at some point it gained a delta chain summary which needs to be snipped before the list of packed objects can be sorted and used. The third patch in this series adds a new built in which makes this simple and fast. While implementing it, I found a couple of other improvements which I think stand alone. [PATCH 1/3] Correct test-parse-options to handle negative ints I noticed that a printf in test-parse-options was using %u instead of %d for an int with the consequence that it wouldn't ever print a negative value correctly. I don't know that we do ever parse a negative integer as an option, but there's no reason that it shouldn't work so I fixed it and added a trivial test. [PATCH 2/3] Move unsigned long option parsing out of pack-objects.c I wanted to be able to parse options like --min-size=500k in my new command so I started to add OPT_ULONG, only to realise that it already existed but was private to pack-objects. I added OPT_ULONG support to parse-options based on the existing OPT_INTEGER code, added new tests and changed pack-objects to use this instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
