Replace path walk feature with upstream version

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>

Author: derrickstolee

Documentation/config/feature.adoc

@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ walking fewer objects.
 +
 * `pack.allowPackReuse=multi` may improve the time it takes to create a pack by
 reusing objects from multiple packs instead of just one.
++
+* `pack.usePathWalk` may speed up packfile creation and make the packfiles be
+significantly smaller in the presence of certain filename collisions with Git's
+default name-hash.
 
 feature.manyFiles::
 	Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the

Documentation/config/pack.adoc

@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ pack.useSparse::
 	commits contain certain types of direct renames. Default is
 	`true`.
 
+pack.usePathWalk::
+	Enable the `--path-walk` option by default for `git pack-objects`
+	processes. See linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for full details.
+
 pack.preferBitmapTips::
 	When selecting which commits will receive bitmaps, prefer a
 	commit at the tip of any reference that is a suffix of any value

Documentation/git-pack-objects.adoc

@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git pack-objects' [-q | --progress | --all-progress] [--all-progress-implied]
-	[--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty]
-	[--local] [--incremental] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>]
-	[--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--keep-pack=<pack-name>]
-	[--cruft] [--cruft-expiration=<time>]
-	[--stdout [--filter=<filter-spec>] | <base-name>]
-	[--shallow] [--keep-true-parents] [--[no-]sparse]
-	[--name-hash-version=<n>] < <object-list>
+		   [--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty]
+		   [--local] [--incremental] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>]
+		   [--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--keep-pack=<pack-name>]
+		   [--cruft] [--cruft-expiration=<time>]
+		   [--stdout [--filter=<filter-spec>] | <base-name>]
+		   [--shallow] [--keep-true-parents] [--[no-]sparse]
+		   [--name-hash-version=<n>] [--path-walk] < <object-list>
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -375,6 +375,17 @@ many different directories. At the moment, this version is not allowed
 when writing reachability bitmap files with `--write-bitmap-index` and it
 will be automatically changed to version `1`.
 
+--path-walk::
+	Perform compression by first organizing objects by path, then a
+	second pass that compresses across paths as normal. This has the
+	potential to improve delta compression especially in the presence
+	of filenames that cause collisions in Git's default name-hash
+	algorithm.
++
+Incompatible with `--delta-islands`, `--shallow`, or `--filter`. The
+`--use-bitmap-index` option will be ignored in the presence of
+`--path-walk.`
+
 
 DELTA ISLANDS
 -------------

Documentation/git-repack.adoc

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [-b] [-m]
 	[--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] [--threads=<n>] [--keep-pack=<pack-name>]
-	[--write-midx] [--name-hash-version=<n>]
+	[--write-midx] [--name-hash-version=<n>] [--path-walk]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ linkgit:git-multi-pack-index[1]).
 	Provide this argument to the underlying `git pack-objects` process.
 	See linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for full details.
 
+--path-walk::
+	Pass the `--path-walk` option to the underlying `git pack-objects`
+	process. See linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for full details.
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------

Documentation/technical/api-path-walk.adoc

@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ better off using the revision walk API instead.
 	the revision walk so that the walk emits commits marked with the
 	`UNINTERESTING` flag.
 
+`edge_aggressive`::
+	For performance reasons, usually only the boundary commits are
+	explored to find UNINTERESTING objects. However, in the case of
+	shallow clones it can be helpful to mark all trees and blobs
+	reachable from UNINTERESTING tip commits as UNINTERESTING. This
+	matches the behavior of `--objects-edge-aggressive` in the
+	revision API.
+
 `pl`::
 	This pattern list pointer allows focusing the path-walk search to
 	a set of patterns, only emitting paths that match the given
@@ -69,4 +77,5 @@ Examples
 
 See example usages in:
 	`t/helper/test-path-walk.c`,
+	`builtin/pack-objects.c`,
 	`builtin/backfill.c`