pack-objects: clarification & option checks for --max-pack-size

Explain the special code for detecting a corner-case error,
and complain about --stdout & --max-pack-size being used together.

Signed-off-by: Dana L. How <danahow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/builtin-pack-objects.c b/builtin-pack-objects.c
index 930b57a..a4370bb 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin-pack-objects.c
@@ -677,6 +677,12 @@ static void write_pack_file(void)
                stop_progress(&progress_state);
        if (written != nr_result)
                die("wrote %u objects while expecting %u", written, nr_result);
+       /*
+        * We have scanned through [0 ... i).  Since we have written
+        * the correct number of objects,  the remaining [i ... nr_objects)
+        * items must be either already written (due to out-of-order delta base)
+        * or a preferred base.  Count those which are neither and complain if any.
+        */
        for (j = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) {
                struct object_entry *e = objects + i;
                j += !e->offset && !e->preferred_base;
@@ -1818,6 +1824,9 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        if (pack_to_stdout != !base_name)
                usage(pack_usage);
 
+       if (pack_to_stdout && pack_size_limit)
+               die("--max-pack-size cannot be used to build a pack for transfer.");
+
        if (!pack_to_stdout && thin)
                die("--thin cannot be used to build an indexable pack.");