object-file: reprepare alternates when necessary

When an object is not found in a repository's object store, we sometimes
call reprepare_packed_git() to see if the object was temporarily moved
into a new pack-file (and its old pack-file or loose object was
deleted). This process does a scan of each pack directory within each
odb, but does not reevaluate if the odb list needs updating.

Extend reprepare_packed_git() to also reprepare the alternate odb list
by setting loaded_alternates to zero and calling prepare_alt_odb(). This
will add newly-discoverd odbs to the linked list, but will not duplicate
existing ones nor will it remove existing ones that are no longer listed
in the alternates file. Do this under the object read lock to avoid
readers from interacting with a potentially incomplete odb being added
to the odb list.

If the alternates file was edited to _remove_ some alternates during the
course of the Git process, Git will continue to see alternates that were
ever valid for that repository. ODBs are not removed from the list, the
same as the existing behavior before this change. Git already has
protections against an alternate directory disappearing from the
filesystem during the lifetime of a process, and those are still in
effect.

This change is specifically for concurrent changes to the repository, so
it is difficult to create a test that guarantees this behavior is
correct. I manually verified by introducing a reprepare_packed_git() call
into get_revision() and stepped into that call in a debugger with a
parent 'git log' process. Multiple runs of prepare_alt_odb() kept
the_repository->objects->odb as a single-item chain until I added a
.git/objects/info/alternates file in a different process. The next run
added the new odb to the chain and subsequent runs did not add to the
chain.

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

Author: derrickstolee

packfile.c

@@ -1008,6 +1008,16 @@ void reprepare_packed_git(struct repository *r)
 	struct object_directory *odb;
 
 	obj_read_lock();
+
+	/*
+	 * Reprepare alt odbs, in case the alternates file was modified
+	 * during the course of this process. This only _adds_ odbs to
+	 * the linked list, so existing odbs will continue to exist for
+	 * the lifetime of the process.
+	 */
+	r->objects->loaded_alternates = 0;
+	prepare_alt_odb(r);
+
 	for (odb = r->objects->odb; odb; odb = odb->next)
 		odb_clear_loose_cache(odb);